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Voi. !•] GEORGIA, LOUISVILLK: —Pubhlhed every 1 uclday, by-AMBROSE DAY, at 3 dollars pei aim. payable To the PUBLIC. I HAVE always entertained an averfion for thofe authors ,Jho are fond of fpeaking about themfelves : and I have with the utmofl folicitude, avoided that wcakr.cfs. But a publica tion has appeared in the Virginia Federal ift, of lafl Saturday, which to the candid mind, will juflifv the freedom that 1 now rake of faying a few words con cerning myfelf. Since I came to Vu hmond, I have wrote fevcral articles for the Examiner; but before they went to pi eh, moP gf them have undergone corre&ions from the pen of Mr. Jones. In the p’o | perfeofeof the woild, therefore, I am not more accountable than the Editor himfdf is, for (he blemifhes that arc to be found in thefc pieces. I have, upon every occafion, carefully conful ted him ; I have fubmitted my opinion implicitly to his; and I have always found reafon to be bleffed that I did fo. J Till Saturday lafl. I did not think that any perfon living would have con felled his con nection with the fubfeription againfi ms, It is furely a forry projeCt for twenty, thirty, or forty gentlemen, ro fall upon a (ingle man, and that man an abfolutc ft ranger among them ; a man, who, at this moment, has never fo much as Teen one of ■ their faces, and who, till the ■ recent explofion, had never fo I much as heard one of their I names, | In the cafe of Mr. Duane, ■ the rioters had received perfonal ■ provocation. Tiuths had been ■f übhfhcd which thefe people ■found it impoffiblc to di[prove. ■But I have been fo far from any ■thing of that kind, that 1 never ■is my life wrote one word, con ■cerning the local politics of ■ Richmond. I have never med ■ u 'Cd with the refpeClivc merits, ■or demerits, of'any one of the ■if-aders or party in this city. I ■* ,ave had a little wrangling with ■f eme of the newfprinters. This V n °t well he avoided. But V did not attack them in their W l^ c an d pnfonal characters. I not 'rake up the afhts of do- W'P*c retirement , that I might i ; ln( Be the cinders of expiring J -'imnity, I only took up the ■Urn.-men as they prefenred ■ ,l nr| ‘ e - Vcj in their own publma- I confidered as fair ■c' a ' * Ihe parties have taken B,‘ s ' arne freedom with me, and ■ arc perfcCHy welcome. ■'- v nave gone farther. They K me to be prefent- Bk,' V; ( * rirj d Jury. I hope B““ 1,1 ,a *u] Ju’y will no: THE LOUISVILLE GAZETTE. TUESDAY, Sept k\*r e r 17, 1 79 - rfasomahd truth impartial uuujf tji. way. —■ confift of old tories, of men who during the revolution, we?e obliged to give bail ro the extent j of ten thoufand pounds fterling, | that they xvould not aft as enemies \ to their country! I refer, in this place, to moie than one Tingle infamous inOance. 1 fpeak to a fyftnn of feleClion, to a leries of faCts, which ate equally well known to every man in Rich mond. Compared with fuch tribunals as have lately been jfeen, a republican, upon trial ; for his pdnciples, would prefer | the Fortugucfe inquifition, ! Thefe jurors are chofen by the marfhal ; and this gentleman holds his office from the Prefi dent. Thus the Prefident chu fes the marflial, and the maifhal chufes the jury. It is but fix years ago, fmee Clement Biddle, rnarfhal of the Bate of Pennfyl * vania, found it neceffuy to give up his office, becapfe' he had j chofen the jury that hid acquit ted Gideon Henfield. On* of tire Judges blamed Mr: Biddle from the bench for having rm de fo bad a feleCbon. Thus the .doClrine of packing was openly defended; and this vas the dig nified fituation of an American jury. - No Englifh judge, fince ,the days of Jeffries, has dared ro treat a jury in this manner Such was the feene exhibited, in the face of day, before the citi zens of America, Mr. Lyon was tried by a jury of his per fonal and profeffed enemies; and after fuch work, he has been cenfared becaufe he did not b'afl himfelf by afking his par-1 don from the Prefident, Ini 1794, colonel John Hamilton, | of Pennfylvania, was an a£live! agent in fuppreffing the Pitif-I burgh riots. Without a veftige 1 of evidence this gentleman was dragged three hundred and fifty miles in the depth of winter, and confined for (evenly davs in tne cells of the prifon of Philadel-| phia, before he could he admit* ! ted to bail. Not an atom of the : probability of guilt ever was or j could he fixed upon col. Hamil-' ton ; and he is row a member of the fenate of Pennfylvan'a. Pafiing over thirty c-i s equally horn'd.* I come tc thole of Abijah Adams & Da id Brown. They have already been explain ed in the Examiner, and I be lieve that this is the ony n.wf paper in America, w ! ich has daied to rifk a fen.imrnt about thcm.t It is ro wonder, tlierefon”, I I that the Ex miner has become! i # * j the marked ebjeef of the ven-| geance of clefpotifrn. When a | man is, hkc David Brown, tt Ibe in dieted for wi thing dug h to ijic f \ce Prffidnit . it mn ft Tavc much ill clefs trouble if j Adams himlclf (hall make our !*prelentmcnts nnd verdi&s. The [apparatus will be fhoitcr, and the illue will be piccifc y the fame. For the honor of Richmond, I am happy to fay that the bro ther ajfociatcrs, as they call thern ielves form a very diminutive minority of the citizens. Ma ny gentlemen from whofc poli tical fentimentg I have the mis fortune to differ, have, on this occafion, declared that they will, if necdlary, defend me, at the n *of their own lives. 1 hus my ex pul (ion from Richmond can only be accomplish'd by a general battle iu which the ojfo \ciators have every chance to be worfted. 1 he committee fay, that they I did not defjgn to pull down the j office of tlie Ex miner. When I once mifehief has begun, the | leaders of a mob cannot tell whe eitis to end, 1 never h-ard in Britain of an afford tion to d' flroy a political writer. I If, mb -ngland a man does wrong, j he is feized by the law ; but no body thinks of brotherly ajjocia- 1 lions for putting an end to him by perfonal outrage. 1 feel the deepeft aftonifhmcnt that, in a I civilized country, Inch a feheme (hould enter into the head of any human b ing. If I havc | wrote nonfenfe, let me he refu ’ i ted. If 1 have wrote fallehoodp ! let them be detected. If lam j a criminal, the committee are welcome to come forward with j ia profccurion i I again repeat-hat I had made it rnv dudy not to imerfeie in die. local politics of Richmond. I have never wrote one line in the Examiner, either to com mend Mr. Clopton, or to ccn fu. j Mr. Marfhall. 1 wifhed to keep my pen facred bom every thing oi that nature, in a part of America, wheic I was an 1 utter ft anger. For a fci.es. i w*irs I have . been a6Hvc indicator oft the moral d dc I cha rafter j of die ft a e \ irginia, when I attacked ta ; n defamatory prudes i t! * id die and eaftern da es. 1 a I claim noth-' I ing mic. i i he common pro te&io *o' 1 • ’aw, to which, as | a citi.vn o' iis country, and j even voufdu'cd merely as aj human!’ * », I have the inf eft fit e. I jn ( -try for having engro 1 - I 1 '.b much of the reader's i me. I if. hon to tins fuhjccf can i ot ■ :c.f'd mine, if, in h*znd-j •ng t prefent publication, I j I sve Committed «ui ciror. I limit ! that his kiridncbs will par non. *vhat his judgment docs not ap prove. Janies Thcmjon Callender . Shock e Hill, Auir i, 1799. * Yon mil find a crui of (hem in my (ketches of the Ililloiy of America. t / do h dns ohjervafieri , wifhlo delroH from the rmnt of many u/e/ul and refpr [table new! - printers ; hut their jdenct on tie. fuhjeft of Iheje. trials , prtfnts a melancholy preface for the freedom 0/ thepn/s . Fa* the complete / rm and prejjiue of tyranny, roe n cd not g 0 Jo Jar as Ireland . From the EXAMINER. To the PURI IC. FcMow Citizens, T II K h.ftorv of I lie world j does not furnifh an in fiance of : a more at onous outrage againfl the laws of foricty, or a more daring infult to the underlland mg of a free n r d enlightened people, than lias be- n off d by “ toe allbci tion,” as they have hern plcaftd o IHlc *hem (elves, but as thev might be more propci ly to mod “ the band of confpirators agunft the j liberties and rights of man/' I A combination is foimed for the express puip fc of c ommitting 1 die m fl flagrant violation of the i laws of mir country, of perpe- 1 1 rating a£ls difgraccful even to the lavage tribe ; and Hun, with the unpa alel'ed efboirery of a Porcupine or a Ken no, an at tempt is made to juftify ir befoie tbe public tribunal. Confcious however, that they had outraged every principle 6f law, both human and divine, rccouiTe is had to the lad te orf »jf excul pating themfelveshycrimin ting every citizen, whole political fentimems do not accord with their own; thereby impeaching tnat very tribunal to which they I had appeHed for a fair and im partial daemon Too citizens of Arr.ejica, will f*y whether 1 their conduct deferves vour ,p -| probation, nr execration; and I whether enrolled on the Jid of American patriots, tl »oy (had he handed down to a gia efuT n f terity, as tha ze lous fupporters of their freedom and independ ence; or ranked among ihe ig | noble band of foes to the ihcr | lies of mankind lhall he crown -1 cd wi'h eternal infamy and diU | grace What mv fellow 1 n zen.i. mu ft be vour indignation, wh n a junto of men, who « conduKl dem (lutes l tic cnor | mity 01 tbnir (enumems, (had : A»r »g ae to; aemfelves exrhiftvo • and the right ot b^n- I'' »• 3d-