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Ihe fir ft Tift the old cur.grefs, and
, ‘'VS CoUft-iy ft. barged, \VI’ - iOMC
’ ‘-tween ten finxSp foeh rigat of im
ft /be folio Dunngf 5 * he adminif
> H /afnington, whsr.ever
<5 nfgro i 3s received cf Any irn
■W'T'l as ‘j mediate orders were
\ tsj'f ro kind the men, and the
f 4Yen v;efl^promlied to be liberated.
. Wafhingron Lot captain Talbot to
Weft-Indies, SR an agent to dfc
- masd fearnen impreffed on board
nov. m cn of war, Talbot dc-
them cf the Rr.nlh com-
TPj/ ders, captains and admirals, and
Me went then on
f a3 Te, and detnadtd and obtained of
* on c chief juftice of the ifiind, writs
habeas corpus* by virtue of which,
imp re fled feamen were brought
w y v m the king’s (hips arid fee&thh-
JyftL v by law, the commanders roc
** ce .ring to difobry the kings writ.—
hiring the Adam;,
ferretary of (lauds cilice can
lhevv what demands were made, and
, die fjccefs of the*:. Ihe rein on
. tancfs that were trade in confe-
of pr ficive inflrudtions, and
E * lc ;e memorials prefenffd at court by
our fniruftcr, were (onceived in
terms as ftror.g as the Englifh lan
guage conic! furniO), without vio
lating that rtfpeft and decorum
r which ought always to be prefeived
between nations and government!-,
even in declarations ofwai*. The
practice was aflerred to be flnt only
a incompatible with tvery principle
? of juft ice and very feeling of hu-
but v;holly irreconcilable
P/Mvith alt thoughts of a continuance
of peace and friend (Tip between the
two nations. The effect of the me-
was, an immediate order ro
ft ohe commanders of the navy to H
jEberate the demanded rfkn. I Hull
*f;iv nothing of Mr. jeficifen’sad-
Jnjriftradon, becaufe the ntgocia
•‘■ycioni ahead)* made public, fuffi
ciently jftiow, that He has not been
* behind either cf his predec* fibrs ir;
his ze?l for the liberty of American
feamen. During all tlvs time,'ex
cuff sand apologies were made/ and
neceffity was fnmetiches hinted ; but
no ferious pretenlTon of right was
advanced. No. The lirfi formal
claim w.r, the king's proclarradon.
With wh’.t propriety then, can this
be called a right, cla med and exer-
Cifed for aaies* and during the whole
of the ad mini ft <at ions o ‘ Yv afh ing
ton, of Adams and Jefferfon ?
Is there any riaftn why another
proelarmton fhotikl fooo appear,
all the officers of the
army in Canada and Nova-Scotia to
go ever the line, and take by force
a 1 the king’s fubjefts they can find
in our vilhgep. The right would
hard upon “the fame principles; but
there i:i tliih difference—it would
not be executed with fb little dan-
JOHN ADAMS.
From the Boftan Patriot.
JUDGE WILLY 3 ADDRESS.
IVe hav j hi Try read , with mingled
emotions of ndrgtutron and horror,
an addrejs id tne Jtitlge Wild, of
South Carolina, tc one John Tcllifon,
who was ir:wic'fed before ibis wife sl
ing Judge, cf ice crime of murder. —
This add refs was prefatory to the meft
awful and tremendous [entente which
it is in ire fewer of human authority
to pals upon a ‘-c't.O'ZV heirg. It ought,
therefore, io have teemed with fee; ti
me.its of bur: inity : bought to bavt
urged fui'o topics only as wire calcu
lated to admittijler eon flat ion to the
infer ame of men, j- dead of this,
, h-mvrver, zve hr held nothing bed the
• §/.. *.. •< *♦ t. t . ‘V !,i c>, it, ’•/, tri-
Vy * *
U’iiph of power over a fallen and
wretched crrr.inal. Af po extra As
from this adirefs will , we are confi
dent, fully jfl fj the above offsrva
lions.
The Judge begins by pr fen ting to
the terrified iinagination of the trenab
ling culprit, two piAurcs. In one, be
exhibits the quiet and happy death of
a good man—in the other, he dijvlays
the dreadful group cf horrors which
haunts the lafi moments cf the ccr. -
vihied murderer :- tc Hung up,"fays
he, “ between the heavens and The
earth, ne avals eldejl, great eft cutfte
fiafnp ‘d on the deed you ‘cave done ■>
no friendly voice to bid a long farewell
—no friendly hand to clofe your eyes
in death. Tou will exhibit an awful
but inftrutling JgctdacU to the world,
and prove that the arm of avenging
juft ice is fzvifr to overtake him who
foods a brother's Hood.”
Such ranting might f (fifthly be tale
ierated by an indulgent audience, in the
•very l aft fcede of the very l aft a& of a
fufilian tragedy. Conftcderhig it, hew ,
ever, as proceeding from the bench of
juft ice, on tbs m fpfoie mn of dll occa
fions, we kno w not what to think of it.
IVe can only Jay with Shakefpears,
c< It is a cruelty to lead a fallen
man.” *
The zealous Judge proceeds with
his wonted enthuftafm cs follows :
u Think not to find a palliation for
your (fence, in the intoxication under
which, it is [aid, you labored, nor
hope to extenuate its horrors in the
Irritation of pa.fi)ion which you endea
vored ts eftablifh. Tour drunkennefs
but aggravates your crime. “
IVe have frequently heard that
drunkennefs was no euufe for a crime
committed under its influence j but it
i; to the ingenuity of Jfftdge fVHd that
we ere indebted for the truly r. Aid
idea that fitch a circum fiance would
avrravete -a crime like that cf mur
dor. We have always hitherto fup
p ftd that Us turpitude was confiider
ed greater or lefs in proper fen to the
deliberation or rafhnefs with which it
was commuted. Hence murder, by
p jifoning, Is perhaps cf all others
the mo ft dctefiabl* bee ante there is m
mode of taking life which, of iff elf,
fnrniffses Jut b clear ,t id forcible proof
of a deliberate intention.
The judge next indulges his genius
cn a tevic which he ourkt to have
i >J4
touched with the great eft p'Jjwls deli
cacy and tendernefs —inftead of which
he bandies it in the me ft abrupt, the
mofil rude, the mofl profane manner.
The culprit was both a hufband and
a father —his miferies on that account
waft Lave been tenfold mere pungent
than what they would have ether wife
been. What <c though his offence
was rack and fir.ek to heaven,”
ought nep his m [femes in fane fort to
have jhislded him from the infoUnce of
reproach ? Yet the Judge fays tc him.
tf Tou. have a wife who tenderly loves
you—Tou are a father cf children who
took io you for bread. Cruel , thought
befs man, what have you done ! Be-
Juft: robbing theft objefls, jufily dear
to your heart, of their only grot eft ion
and [uppert j bejides turning them on
a wide and frh'.ndlefs world, exprfi'ed
So ail the buffet firry of ft off and ad
verftty, you have unkindly loaded them
with dijgrace, which though they do
r.-J merit, they mu fit forever feel.”
H e know not whether Judge Wild
las ever felt the tendernefs cf connu
bial or parental love, if he has, we
Jbsuld tbtrk he aula not have avoid
ed ccmpajfiomiing the prifoAtr—and
inftead of finch cold arid barren up
braiding >, that he would have con
foled him with the afturanccs cf that
kind and merciful Providence who is
ever a father to the fatherlys, and a
God to the widow.
P’ft ‘X” :• arable, and
humane, end ebquent judge refer ves *
the hrrculedn enofgUs cf his mind for
the following truly jublime perrcation.
“ Your days on earth are now run
<{ bered. ‘lbs fiver and cf death which
“ hangs uplifted over ih/frail thread
<< of your cxiftcncc, ready to drop,will
“ quickly cut it in twain, and theft
“ who have known you fto all know you
tc no inert. . But though you feel the
c: fatal firoke, hope not in it to find
a termination of your woes ; it
“ will be the mere prelude to another
“ trial awfully terrific, again you
“ will be arraigned at the bar of jufi
i( lice, and record of a
“ thoufand crimes Jpread in your
“view. —Again you maft raft your
trembling hand, but before a Judge
t£ whole penetrating eye wilTfpy the
<f jeeret corners of your foul, whole
“ power is fearful indeed l Again
“you will be confronted l with wit
t: nefs, and horrible thought ! the
‘ f bleeding murdered Mathis, pro
(i buddy dragged from the howling
<c regions of defpair, will appear in
£ * the number; fhould* you again be
tc found guilty, your doom will be i>i
tc terminable wee /”
IT ho ever heard or dreamed, efjuth
eloquence! “The bleeding niur
deicd Mathis dragged from the
howling regions of defpair,” cannot
but be confidered as the fublime offs
pring of a really fublime fancy. The
appearance of Dido to IJneas in the
ftd is cf Tartarus is compeftd with the
tc melancholy madnefs cf poetryno
thing mors than the crude prcduftion
of a raw and undifeiplinedfcbokl hoy.
However “ De guSTbus non ciifpu
nn dum eft,” all mull readily never
tbelfts Jidftribc to the humanity cf a
Judge who could thus fuCceJsfully ad
mhifter conftlatim to a wretched felon.
H r e third: he mu ft have learned his
pathos from theft great mafters Ot
way and M‘Kenzie. He mufi him
ftlf be a very Harley, bette r fitted to
weep over the mifcries, than frown at
the vices cf poor human nature .
NEW-HAVEN, May joE
Farthquake —On Thurfdiy mor
ning kftpftat five minutes be fore io,
a very sedible fiiock of ah earth
quake was felt in this town and
neighborhood. The firft notice of
its approach was a diftant rumbling
found, fimilar to that of fevenft
loaded waggons palling over firmly
beaten ground, advancing from the
weft or north-weft lor about ten ie
conds, wh?n the found was appar
ent])’ neardt, and at the faaie iriftant
a fevere Ihock was experienced
much refembling one produced by
the ccncuflion of two vt flels, and
for a few feconds after the fame
giddy motion was experienced.-
The found continued about as long
after as before the ftiock, and paffed
cif to the caft or fouth eaft. In many
heufes the giafs and other wares
were obferved to ring with confid
erable force.
The (late of the atmofphere had
been feme what variable during the
morning; although for two or more
hours the fun had fhown blight
with a ferene iky, and frefh breeze
a: weft. This weather has com lu
lled, with little Interim (Hon* ever
ftnee } except that on Sunday eve
ning we were viftted with an unti
lual thunder florin.
To v hat diftance the earthquake
was fr.lt is yet to be afccriained,—
We learn that upwards of co miles
to the weft and north and nearly as
far to the eaftward, the convulfion
was diftic&ly noticed.
FOR SALE
AT THIS OFFICE
SHERIFF’S BLANK TITLES.
LONDON, AMJo. S y?
‘ft -a /V.
DtJTCnr DECRJB.
From the Royal Conran! of the cft
infant.
Louis Napoleon, by the Grace of
God, c ?c.
The following is a lift of good=i
which, from the tft cf April ißoc,
are permitted to be exported and
imported to and from allied and
or neutral dates, in Dutch veiTrlss
or thofe of allied or neutral pa r ers..
to and from tne harbors of Amfter
narn, Rotterdam, Dord,
Hariington, V re re, Zier
ker, Dalfzyi and Bronvverfhaven.
Exports —Books, brans, butter,
brandy, bricks, cheefe, cambrics,
copper manufactured, clocks, clo -
ver and garden feeds, teh, Sower
roocs, fiuir, geneva, gauzes,.glue,
hoops, hides dried, iron manufac
tured, leather, linen, linfeed, mad
ders, mili-ftonfs, oak bark ground,
oats, oils of feeds, pottery, powder
blue, peas, paper, perfumery, plants
pipes, playing cards, mills, ruihes,
fiik manufactured, fach facurni,
ftarch, tins, thread and thread tape,
tobacco, tarras, turf, vinegar, watch
js, white lead, wine, wood manu
factured-*
Imports.*—Afhes (pot,) candles.
Copper, corn, rAffi oil, ifingSai?,
hare {kins, hemp and hemp feed,
hides, (rough) iron, leather (im~
manufactured) lead, linked, mer
cury, mats, pitch, Rcilia fkins, rape
feed, flock fifh, fodc, far, tallow,
tobacco, timber, wax, wool, and
wine,
The decree ispeifieftiy adapted
to pleale America. The articles
which are permitted to be export
, ed, are thofe which France and
Holland have in abundance, and
many of which America Hands in
need of, fu ch as pottery, linen,
mercury, ironmongery . &c. The
articles permitted to be imported,
are thofe which America abounds
in fhch as grain, hemp and hemp
feed, timber, pot afti, tobacco, tar,
&c. The decree h alfo calculated
to relieve the commerce of Russia,
by the permission it affords to im
port hides, hemp, tallow and other
things,
N O T I C E.
In pur Juan of an Or deref tbs
Honorable Inferior Court of Oglethorpe
County,
WILL BE SOLD,
Qn the firfi Tuesday in September
next, at the Court-Houft in Ogle
thorpe County
A Trad cf Land containing one
hundred and feventy-fix acres, on
the waters of Troublefome creek
in faid county adjoining lands of
Noah Freeman, Thomas Fletcher
and John Leggett, the fame being
part of the real eftate of Benjamin
Wilkes, deceafed, and fold for the
benefit of the heirs and creditors.-
The terras of the fale will be credit
for twelve months with bond and
approved fecurity.
SARAH WILKES,
Adndmflratrix .
AARON WILKES,
MO $E S W i LKE S,
Adminiftraiors .
June loth, 1809.
N OTIC E.
WILL BE SOLD
Qn Saturday the iy(b sf July next,
in Athens, at the former rcfidcr.ce
of James Stewart, dececfsd,
ALL the perfonai property of
fald deceafed. —Conditions cafli,
SAMUEL STEWART,
RICHARD STEWART*
Adhiiniftraiors .
Juste 24, 1809.