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Every lead, quick or dead, Of tbe Curtq’re.i of Quebec* Columbian* lve tb'ir Liberty, Their Country And their Gsd, No kingly power fhail make them diff er, They dread no tyrant's nod-, Their happy country’s dsfhny Is ever to be free, And they'll fight for every righf, her their Land ar.d Liberty. Then reitfe, Columbians, ritfk to arms! Obey yeur Country’s call-, Tour motto “ Death or Vidor),” Live glorioufiy or fall — href erne the precious heritage, Tour fathers’ valor won, So foall fame crown each name, Whitt the day of battle's done. W. — mmutrrreffw— — Individual CA Commercial Patriot jm. The Merchants of Philadelphia having it un ier confi leration to build a Ship off Var, and her to the United States, have appoint ed a committee to receive fubferip tions for chat purpofe. The fir(l perfon applied to was Mr. Jacob Gerard Koch, a gentleman who has underwritten largely, and is per fonaliy deeply interfiled in the re turn of many vclfeis new at fea.— What think you was the anfwer of this right worthy citizen* ? Why, truly, he lubferibed five theufand dollars, and then laid, “ This l fub fit rib’ as a gift, but if it i* intend'd to loan the (hip, I will build a jhip of war myjelf for the government.” Thiiis inded uaadul erated pa triotifm, and we confefs we feel proud that fo good a citizen inha bit the fame city in which we re fide. Let his name, fame and good deeds be in rvt ry nc .vfpa per, and he himfrlf will be eftcem ed and refpf&e.'i from the Sc. Law rence to the Mifiilfippi, and fioin the Atlantic to me Lakes. May his riches multiply abundantly, and his happtnels have an exceeding great incrcafe. Democratic Prefs, William Cobbett, in a letter to the Prince Kegnt, comments very fc vtelv upon part of a fpeech of j'ohn Randolph , in which the orator fays—< J jo not like this Republi canism which is lupported by Mr. Randolph on this fide the Atlantic, and by Cobbctc on the other, who, if he could break jail, would affift in revolutionizing New England,” 3ec. Cobbett concludes his flric tures with fa irg— 4< l will inform him [Mr. Randolph] that he has the honor to ag ee, not only in fen timent, but cllo in expre fii >n*, wi;h every literary flare, m the Brmfh dominions, with every one whofe hand is like the b ggar’i difh, and wh >f price is as rtguiar, tho’ not peihaps, fo moderate, as Ralls at a market, or beds at an inn.” Iren True American. The modern Chatham, in ‘mirati on of the “ Am r tan Artfitdes” is atretnj t rg o t ffcdl by she energy of h's pen, what the eloqurn. e of hii tongue failed o (—John Randolph and Timothy Pickering , “ par nsbile fr strum ” —as the former fa and of two •thcr writers on a late occafion. ih The oppnficion to government it crumbling to pieces like a rope of fand.” Many of the greatdl men, and leveral of the abltil edi tors of the Federal party, have come out openly and honorably on the fi ie of government. More will ftltav? their footftepaj and a f cvv months will prtbably leave noae in that party but fuch as willdefervs the name of lories !—We want to fee the wheat leparated from the chaff —that a (l fi wefierly breeze rosy rid us forever of the latter.— ib. According to Burt, ir, who fays tha*— u When the fifit becov.fi 4 cha'g, He wins the ’gi t whe cv; the r.l > /(* Tne Hr 1 ih frgur Hfi'utrre r.as gained a com pie: c vie; * net the whole of our car —h.tvs . •;.* them nil, and nr.. It hr* c .<. c S— lb, Ab urdi nr t — N im * n•*o p ; r \x h o piteot-f). lament /-V •/-.• war,*- ceclire stcy woulu Unr been t-in ter: t Had it brrn warded agsinll both England and Ftanccd As if th’ << r ror* of war would have been hffer.ed by having two enemies indeed t sr.e. ibid. One to vindicating cur rights by the Iword is, our having been fo ‘long out of the ufe of it, but this re aI on would gan (Length by every day’s dehy—and w uid completely prevent our ever having rccourfe to arms, let our wro- gs be as numer us and as g eat as they might.—/A. The idea that cnufl know how to fight before we go to wa , ?s much like that of the old woman who charged her fon never to go i,t - the water till he had learnt to iwira ! A. Thofe who think that Amen % h not able to contend with Bn'ain now, muft forget what we did thir ty j ears tgo —and that we have been growing ftronger and flic weaker c ver fitice.- ib.— — “ 1 he power of Britain,” i* held up by fome as a great object of terror —and yet tneU very men would not be afraid of encountering the pwer of France alfo at the fame time !—Wc arc for one at a time.— lb. Some printers vho not long fi ice enrourpgcd and j; ft Ad the m ill unprovoked ad lawiUi ouuagrs of mobs, now exprefs the utmoft ap pre rrfi na .and abhorrence of roob- Uw !—While the friend* of the go vernment were the vi£bms, it was all r:ghi —but when it* enemies are made totaftc the lame cup the* ad - miniftered to others—“ A5, that alters the cale ” —We never did ap prove mob^law — -nor do we row but we think that rh* cceducl of the Editors of the Federal R pub lican, was, to fay the leaft, as un jujiifiable as the m >b. ib. If A. and B. were at law, the for mer contending for ur.queftionable rights, and the latter matntamirg u juft fiiole aggr flionsj what be in. ugtoi one of A’s fon*, who fh.?u!d, b th fcv writing and fprak ing, continually dtfeourage his fa ther from profeeming his juft claim?, and endeavor to excite the fil-vviil of ni family agindt him, and at the fame time fhould endouraee B. to perfevere in his inj .dice, by tel lig him that A. was out of mo ney, and not able to carry *n the fuit—that his family were all in B’s intereft, and wnul foon obi ge him to drop the action—that, rhe efore, B. had nothing to do but fitch eut for a Ih rc time, and he w iuict car ry every point, See, ?—Would not dtfiutercftcd perfons prenaunce a ion who fo conde&ed, a traitor to his father’s and his own interti! ? And ought not his father, when he found him cut, to kick hint out of doors ?” (iEORGIA EXPREbb. Jg_l - ■ V-saua ATHENS, AUGUST 7. THE National FASI\ appointed by the Prefidtnt of the U. Stares, w :l!, no doubt, be folemnly acren drd by the good citizens of this county. Col. Jackfort, and ~me other military cfHcers, have deter mined to attend on that day, at the College Chapel, in Athens. Sevc r-i ne ghbeting Clergymen, 0? ch/- ferent denominations, have been rrq ftftedto attend ch the occafion. T his will be an opportunity favor able for (hewing that our and ff*;rent ■opinions onßeligion and pr-iitics, do not ieparate us when our country calls far Union. One or more dif rourfes, adapted to the cccafirn, will be dflive ed io the Colkge Chapel on that dav. ON the eveuihg of Monday lafi, (the warning of which day Mr M ( Donnell left Athens for Greenefirro*) Augustin mith Clayton ejq . Attorney at Lev in the Upper Circuit Captain of the Militia for the Dif of Athens (not of the Veins teers to defend their country) and a Member of the Legifiaiure for the county of Clark, did perform an all of H roifrr. worthy of his immaculate ft If. Reader, hew was ibis gi Ui ■Ra performed? fVas it in an ho nor able way ? No. 7he junior Ed- itor of this payer went to the Store of Stevens Thomas , Ejq — Mr. Clayton was ft)on informed that his intended victim was there—this gallant fon of Mars immediately repaired , (not to she plains of Auguftine, no* to the bright sof .-tbra ham) but to the ft ore cj Sir (howas, there to beat, with a large -tick a man who is Cripple. Mr Gaines had, in coufequence of Mr CUyt.,n's previous, f kmn dec laration no other expeStatien but that bt would make good bis promtfe (al though like pie crufi, they are made to be bf oien J and have knocked ad the t- hi wn his torn? —a dtfcipline which he felt not d.ifpnfrti to undergo. V/hen Mr. Clayton entered the piaz za of Mr, I bent as, we were re any in coni aft—whether he done it thro’ the impulfts of humanity, or whether he found himfelf in rather a ;i kiifli Jiiuaiien, is b< ft known to him;elf— but ft it is—be dropped bis bludgeon, and end of and with Mr Gaines—a con bat enjited-—the refull is known —But Mr. Clayton gained bis faded laurel, not by bis courage or his Manhood— it was obtained by the intervention sf the Sped tiers, feme of whom wrefied from the hand tf Mr Caines, the weapon with which , he intended io have done ample jufiice to his an tags nifi and himfelf. But while they de prived the weaker party of every means of defence, they fuffered the Vidor to retain to the laft, a large brick bat in his hand. Mr. Gabies has no ‘v fh to lee the blood of his fellow citizens fiow —much lefs has he a • ffi rt to fhed it—but when he is tjfailed without a caufe, he will Band in his defence, and, if pHTibk, im molate his affailant. What a difplVy of COURAGE was manifefied by that Braggado cio, when he purfuedthe vanqjj i-h ---id, CRIPPLE, (as be thought) threatening io give him the finishing blow ? A QUESI lON. IF an Officer of the PEACE, encourages and foments RIOTS, does he not loofc fight of .bis Sacred Obliga tions to bis God and to bis Country ? The Federal Leaders have !n ---crfianUy labored to make the Bri tish government btiieyfi that the American government would no: dare CO refill their sggre(lions by a War. ‘l*h€ Fcdcralift wrought themDlves into that bd*ef, 2nd de ceived the Britifh government into the fame error. The Federal Lea ders arc now r-fliducufly employed to make the Englifh government be lieve that the American People will not fupport the Aiminijlration in the War that is new wagi? g for the de fence of our eSendai 2nd indisputa ble rights. This is done to encou rage the Britifb to prolong the war to afford federal Office- Hunters in op portunity to whine absut the csb~ mi ties of war, and hypocritically \\- fnent the lofs of the biddings oi Peace. Thus it appears thsc the dire# and palpable tendency of the prifent federal oppofition is to enc.u-* 1 rage the Brit ih to perfevere in a war which union arr.cr.g otirfelves would brir.g to an end in the courfc or a few months. The friend* of our country, feed the real friends of Pence will dearly *Fe thr depend an sane corrupt filet:-hunting Fe deral* fts are exc icing an unfounded opp< iirion to Government while they are iuhje&lr‘g tfw-ir country to the calamities of a War per fevered in by theenrmy up*n the encourage went end affurttnee of the Tory Fed eraiifis lha; the People will furcly abandon the adminitlratio i. FRENCH DECREE. Palace of St. Cisud, April aSth, 1811. ft Napoleon, Emperor of the French, King of Italy , PrMetier of ike Lan- f 3 deration tf the Rhine, Mediator of the axe difh Confederacy. On the report of cur Minifier for Foreign Affairs. Being informed sf the law sf the 2d March, 181 i, by which the Ccn grefs sf the United States has decreed, the execution of the prsvifitns of tbs Alt of Nc* Interc&urje, which inter dicts the entry into American ports of the /hips and merchandize of G. Bri tain. her colonies and dependencies: Considering that the jaid law is on aT of reft fiance to the ar bit ary pre tonflow advanced by the Britijh orders in Council, and a formal nfufal to f&nuisn a fyfiem kefiile to the indepen dence cf Neutral Powers, and of their ( flags: fVe have decreed, and do decree as fell revs : The Decrees of Berlin and Milan are defini.ely (from the firfi of No vember Ufi) cenjiderei as no longer in force, as far as regards American vejfels. (Signed, /Ac)” A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS the Congrcfs of the United States, by a joint Re feiutien of the rwo hcjufe*, have fignified a requeft, that a day may be recommended, to be chfervcd by the People of the United States, with Religious foleinnity, £<3 s dry of public Humiliation snd Prayer; and whereas, fuch a recommendati on will enable the feveral religious denominations and focieties fo dif pofed, t® < fft r, at ©ne and the fame time, their common vows and ado rations to Almighty God, on the fclcmn occafion produced by the war, m which he has been pleafed to permit the iojuftice of a foreign power to involve thefe U. States: I do therefore recomtstnd the third Tbur/day in Augufi next, a* a conve nient day to be fe: apart, for the devout purpofes cf tendering to the Sovereign of the Uni’verfe, and the benefactor oi mankind, the public FL mage due to his Holy attributes; ot acknowledging the :ranfgr*fiions