ules France with a defpotifm which that ountry has never witneffed fince the days Charlemagne! Mr. Livingfton proteffes be a republican: Wast! then does reublicanism mean any thing or nothing? s it one day the guardian of the rights of han, and the next the humble flatterer of tyrant, who reduces man to be an abfoute flave? an automaton, who dares not peak, and fcarcely think, left his lordly mafter fhould confign him to a dungeon or

moment, of involving us in a war with
England, and Mr. Livingston, by his ac-
tions leems to be a fit partizan to accom-
plifh fuch a purpose; for he has adopted
fteps which may put in jeopardy our rela-
tions with England, without the leaft pof.
fible benefit that could thereby arise to this
country.

VIATOR.

tomb. And yet Mr. Livingston is not
shamed to bow down before and addrefs
with fulfome adulation fuch a man, and
o call the extinction and facrifice of the
iberties of France in her reprefentative
government, as the refult of his noble
labors in the cabinet. Truly, my fellow.
citizens, if fach be the declarations of Mr.
Livingflon, it behoves you to be on your
guard; feeing, at the fame time he has
pledged then. as the fentiments of his gov
ernment, although general Smith, and
other members of congrefs, have hereto.
fore declared it was impoffible the prefent
We fhould offer fome remarks on the
fyftem of things in France, could be ap- late trial of Mr. Tracy, editor of the Lan-
proved of by the American executive.fingburgh Gazette, for a libel on Judge

Editor's Closet.

Lewis, could we do it in fuch manner as
to fteer clear of the fangs of the law. But
it is a very ticklish cafe, and requires great
caution. Our friend Freer, of Ulfter,
was fined for contempt for firft publifh.

bundle of p intended to Want of ro

feem to be f

we have fel that Simon New-Jer Thomas Pai his nose ag

fire-he ftag

puddle, and illuftrious m ty of fplendi for the brand his glory. Washing the Treafur

the grand f fpecies of Prefident, w try an expe bills.

New Yor Daggerman the State Pr of difcharge The compar

Mr. Livingfton has, therefore, either li belled his own government as much as he has abufed that of England, or otherwife, the people have been deluded with profe fions of neutrality which it was never in. tended to obferve: but till the contrary be feen, it ought to be believed that Mr. Livington has compromited the governing the article which was the ground of-Uniform

ment, and not that the executive have been deceiving the people.

Every day's experience fhews more and more the reft'efs, ambitious, and grafping fyllem of the French government. Look at Holland, her ally-plundered to the veIV dregs. Look at Switzerland, Dok at Tufcany, Naples, and the other Italian flates, and look at her religious refpe&t for the rights of neutrals in her late violation of the German territory, contrary to the laws of nations; and yet this is the gov ernment fo much admired by Mr. fton. With England we ftand in the fame relations of Amity and Friendship as with France, and our connections with that Country are infinitely more extended and beneficial to us than those we poffefs with France. What have we to do with the various mance ivres practifed by either nation, except to fteer fuch a courfe as fhall keep us out of their broils: but if our ambaffador will fo far forget the duty he owes his country as to infult the English govern. ment, we must not be furprifed that differences fhould arife between the two nations, which would tend to the mutual difadvantage of both, and accomplish the darling object, which the French governmen: have never loft fight of, from the time Mr.

indictment against Mr. Tracy; and who
knows but we may be ferved in the fame
manner? Tho' we confefs that there ap-
pears to be lefs danger, fince Lewis is
no longer judge, nor Spencer Attorney.
General.

paper.

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bloody attac

The Edit cer lately br The prefider calling him

merica.

Hudfon.afferted that than Knave.

Monticell Prefident ar

In the cafe of Mr. Tracy, we obferve that Judge Thompfon took the liberty to differ in every material point from the noted decifion of Judge Lewis in the cafe of the editor of this LivingWe were just upon the point of expreffing our fenti ments pretty freely on this honorable condu&t of Judge Thompson, when we were reftrained by the reflection that every word in favor of the decifions of this gentleman, would be direct cenfure on those of Lewis-and who would dare to cenfure Morgan Lewis ?There can be no harm, however, in declaring, that we look upon Judge Thompfon to be one of thofe honeft, independent men, (once talked of by Lewis) who, on mounting governor ?" the judicial bench, do really leave their will foon be party-feelings at the foot-ftool."

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Agricultural.

EXTRACT.

1

FROM THE VERMONT GAZETTE,

A HINT TO FARMERS.

IF

F by drawing your manure only one hundred rods, and spreading it four inches deep, on one acre of land for planting, you can obtain an hundred bushels of corn per acre, what a pity it is to draw it four hundred rods, and scatter it over eight acres, by fpreading it half an inch thick, and obtaining only forty bufh eis per acre, with all the additional fatigue of man and beast,

Farmers confider which is moft to your advantage, to economite in this line, or continue to work as it were at arm's end, by extending your manure too far and too thin. Certainly the more compact your intereft, the eafier can you govern and fence it,

DARIUS BENEDICT.

IT

T deferves your confideration, that much of the pleafure of vice itfelf depends on fome fpecies or other of virtue combined with it. All the joys we derive from family connexions and affinities, from the love and confidence of our fellow creatures, and from the intercourse of good offices, are properly virtuous joys and there is no courle of life which, were it deprived of thefe joys, would not be completely miferable. The enjoyments, therefore, of vicious men, are owing to the remains of virtuous qualities in them. There is no man fo vicious as to have nothing good left in his character-and could we conceive any fuch man; or meet with a perfon quite void of benevolence, temperance, good humour, fociablenefs and

cove

honor; we should deteft him as an odious
monfier, and find that he was incapable
of all happiness. Wickednels, when con-
fidered by itfelt, and in its naked form,
without any connexion with lovely quali
ties, is nothing but fhame, and pain, and
diftrefs. If the debauchee erjoys any
thing like happinefs, it is becaufe he joins
to his debauchery fomething laudable;
and his tender and focial feelings are not
extirpated. In like manner-iť a
tous man have any thing befides perplex-
ity and gloominefs in his heart, it is be-
cause there are fome virtues which he
practices, or because he difguifes his cov
etoufnefs under the forms of the virtues of
prudence and frugality: This then being
the cafe; fince even the plea fure that vice
enjoys is thus founded upon and derived
from virtuous qualities, how plain it is
that these conflitute our chief good; and
that the more of them we poflefs, so much
the more muft we poffefs of the fources of
pleafure ?The virtuous man is the
moft generous man, the most friendly, the
most good natured, the most patient and
contented. He has most of the fatisfac-
tions refulting from fympathy, and hu-
manity, and natural affection; and fo cer-
tain it is, that fuch a perfon must be the
happieft, that the wicked themselves, it in
any respect happy, can be fo only as far as
they either are the fame that he is, or think
themselves the fame.

Miscellany.

FROM THE EVENING POST.

REVIEW OF THE CROSWELL CAUSE.

IT has for fome time been our inten-
tion to take notice of a pamphlet which
has lately been publifhed in this city, enti-
tled "The Speeches, at full length, of
Mr. Van Nets, Mr. Caines, the Attor-
ney. General, Mr. Harrifon, and General
Hamilton, in the great caufe of the People
against Harry Crofwell, on an indictment
for a libel on Thomas Jefferion, Prefident
of the United States," and which pam-
phlet is, we understand, the production of
the faid Mr. Caines himself,

It is not cur defign at this time to enter
at all into the merits of the great queflion
involved in this trial; we shall referve
what we may have to fay on that core,
till the public fhall be prefented, as they
will be, with a more correct report of the
feveral arguments than, we feel warranted
in faying, has been done by Mr. Caines
Our fole de-
in the pamphlet before us.
fign in noticing this production is to guard
our readers against an important error into

which they might otherwise be led by the
The report-
title page of the book it self.
er undertakes to fay that the fpeeches of
the counsel are given at full length, and
the name of General Hamilton is made to
ftare in large capitals, as if his fpeech in
particular, of which our various news.p2,
pers have often spoken, had alfo been pre-
ferved by the reporter, and would appear
among the reft,

We were not prefent when the motion
for a new trial in this caufe, was urged be-
fore the Supreme Court, on which occa,
fion the speeches of the Counsel concern-
ed were delivered; we cannot undertake.
therefore to speak from our own knowl,
edge of the accuracy of the Reporter.
But we have good authority for believing
that not a fingle speech of any one of the
Counfel as delivered, is given at full
length, or any thing approaching to it,
except indeed that of Mr. Caines, the Re
porter himself. To his own fpeech we are
old, he has done ample justice, that be
ing printed verbatim as delivered. There
was the lefs difficulty in doing this, as we
are informed Mr. Caines had reduced his
fpeech to writing before it was delivered,
and actually read it from a copy in his
hand. The other gentlemen not having
taken this trouble, it will at once be feen
that it was not so easy to give their speech,
es entire nor can we lee how M. Caines
can justify himself for calling thefe "Speech.
es at full length." General Hamilton's
fpeech efpecially, which alone occupied
fix hours, and was admitted on all hands
to be the most extraordinary effort of hu-
man genius ever witneffed, is here com-
preffed into about fixen pages, whereas
it must have occupied if it had been pub
lifhed at full length, between two and
three hundred. Nay, how this gentleman
could pretend to give the fpeech of Gen-
eral Hamilton at all, other than from mere
memory, we cannot imagine, for we are
well informed that although Mr. Caines
attempted at fift to take notes yet that the
energy and eloquence of the fpeaker
fo powerfully arrefled his
and affected his nerves, that he threw
down his pen and declared it impof-
fible to follow him for a line. Juftice,
therefore, to all the gentlemen concerned,
and a regard more particularly to the latter,
required that Mr. Caines fhould not have
ufhered his report into the world with a t
tle page which fo materially injures the
truth, Indeed it would require

attention

extreme

weakness of credulity for any perfon ac quainted with either Mr. Harrifon or General Hamilton, to believe that a fingle paragraph attributed to either of thofe gentlemen was ever uttered by them.

When Mr. Caines comes to Mr. Harrifon's fpeech, be for a moment finks the reporter in the belles lettres critic. He !

A GENTLEMAN who had just been reading the Report of a certain Trial, pub-ry lifhed at New-York, in which the fpeech of the Reporter himfelf appears a full length, while thole of the oppofite Counfel are curtailed to a few meagre pages,

me unblufhingly propofed and already begun by the French with the calmness and ferenity of a countenance accustomed to fimilar crimes. Guadaloupe, pillaged and defroyed its ruins ftill reeking, with the blood of the children, women and old men put to the fword, PELAGE (himself the victim of their craftiness) after having bafely betrayed his country and his brothers: The brave and immortal DELGRESSE, blown into the air with the fort which he defended, rather than accept their offered chains. Magnanimous warrior! that noble death, far from enfeebling our courage, ferves only to oufe within us the determination of avenging or of following thee. Shall I again recall to your memo. ry the plots lately framed at Jeremie? the terrible explofion which was to be the refalt, nothwithflanding the generous pardon granted to thefe incorrigible beings at the expulfion of the French army? The deplorable fate of our departed brothers in Europe? and (dread harbinger of death) the frightful defpotifm exercifed at Martinique? unfortunate people of Marti nique, could I but fly to your affiftance, and break your fetters! Alas! an infurmountable barrier feparates us. Perhaps a fpark from the fame fire which inflimes us, will alight into your bofoms: perhaps at the found of this commotion, fuddenly awakened from your lethargy, with arms in your hands, you will reclaim your facred and inprefcriptable rights.

woe to those who may approach too near
the mountains! It were better for them that
the fea received them into its profound a-
byfs, than to be devoured by the anger of
the children of Hayti.

"War to Death to Tyrants!" this is
my motto; "Liberty! Independence!"
this is our rallying cry.

Generals, officers, foldiers, a little un-
like him who has preceded me, the ex-
general Touffaint Loverture, I have been
taithful to the promife which I made to you
when I took up arms against tyranny, and
whilft the laft fpark of life remains in me I
fhall keep my oath. Never again fhall a
Colonift or an European fet his foot upon
this territory with the title of mafier or
proprietor. This refolution fhall hence-

forward form the fundamental bafis of our
conftitution.

moment I have confidered you as my chil dren, and my fidelity to you remains undiminished. As a proof of my paternal folicitude, within the places which have fubmitted to my power I have propofed for Chiefs none but men cholen from amongst yourfelves. Jealous of counting you in the rank of my friends, that I might give you all the time neceffary for recollection, and that I might affure myfelt of your fi delity, I have hitherto restrained the bur ning ardour of my foldiers. Already 1 congratulated my felf, on the fuccefs of my folicitude, which had for its objeft to prevent the effufion of blood; but at this time a fanatic prieft had not kindled in your breafts the rage which predominates therein the incenfed Ferrand had not yet infilled in you the poifon of falfhood and calumny. Writings, originating in def

Should other chiefs, after me, by pur-pair and weaknefs have been circulated; fuing a condu&t diametrically oppofite to and immediately fome amongst you, ledu. mine, dig their own graves and thofe of ced by perfidious infinuations, folicited their fpecies, you will have to accuse on the friendship and protection of the ly the law of deftiny which fhall have tak French; they dared to outrage my kind. en me away from the happinefs and wel. nefs, by coalefcing with my cruel ene fare of my fellow-citizens. May my fuc mies. Spaniards, refle&! On the brink ceffors follow the path I fhali have traced of the precipice which is dug under your out for them! It is the fyftem beft adap. feet, will that diabolical min fier fave you, ted for confolidating their power; it is the when with fire and fword I fhall have purhigheft homage they can render to my fued you to your laft entrenchments?

memory.

As it is derogatory to my character and my dignity to punifh the innocent for the crimes of the guilty, a handful of whites, commendable by the religion they have always profeffed, and who have befides taken the oath to live with us in the woods, have experienced my clemency. I order that the fword refpect them, and that they be unmolested.

I recommend anew and order to all the

generals of department &c. to grant fuc-
cours, encouragement, and protection, to
all neutral and friendly nations who may
wish to establish commercial relations in
this Illand.

Head Quarters at the Cape, 28th April,
1804, first year of independence.
The Governor General,
(Signed)
DESSALINES.
A true Copy. The Secretary-General,
JUSTE CHANLAtte.

After the terrible example which I have juft given, that fooner or later Divine Jufice will unchain on earth fome mighty minds, above the weaknefs of the vulgar, for the deftru&tion and terror of the wicked; tremble, tyrants, ufurpers, fcourges of the new world! our daggers are sharpened; your punishment is ready! fixty thoufand men, equipped, inured to war, obedient to my orders, burn to offer a new facrifice to the names of their affaffinated brothers. Let that nation come who may be mad and daring enough to attack me. Already at its approach, the irritated genius of Hayti, rifing out of the bofom of the ocean appears; his menacing afpe&t throws the waves into commotion, excites tempefts, and with his mighty hand difperfes fhips, or dafnes them in pieces; to his formidable voice the laws of nature pay obedience; difeafes, plague, famine, conflagration, poifon, are his conftant attendants. But why calculate on the affiftance of the climate and of the elements? Have I forgot that I command a people of no common caft, brought up in adverfity, whofe audacious daring frowns at obftacles and in-edge my authority; by a free and fponta creases by dangers? Let them come, then, these homicidal Cohort ? I wait for them with firmness and with a fleady cye. I abandon to them freely the fea-fhore, and the places, where cities have exifted; but

LIBERTY OR DEATH.
PROCLAMATION.

JAEN JAQUES DESSALINES, Governor General to
the Inhabitants of the Spanish Part.
SCARCE had the French army been
expelled, when you haftened to acknowl-

neous movement of your heart, you ran
ged yourselves under my fubjection. More
careful of the profperity than the ruin of
that

part which you inhabit, I gave to this
homage a favorable reception. From that

Ah! without doubt, his prayers, Lis grimaces, his relics, would be no impedi ment to my career. Vain as poweilefs, can he preferve you from my jf anger after I fhall have buried him and the colletion of brigands he commands under the ruins of your capital? Let them both recolle that it is before my intrepid pha lanxes that all the refources and the fkill of Europeans have proved ineffectual: and that into my victorious hand the deftiny of the captain-general Rochambeau has been furrendered. To lure the Spaniards to their party, they propagate the report that veffels laden with troops have arrived at Santo Domingo. Why is it not the truth? They little imagine that in delaying to attack them until this time my prin ciple object has been to fuffer them to increafe the mafs of our refources and the number of our victims. To fpread diftruft and terror, they inceffantly dwell upon the fate which the French have joft experien ced but have I had reafon to treat them fo? The wrongs of the French do they ap pertain to the Spaniards? and muft I vifit on the latter the crimes which the former have conceived, ordered, and executed upon our fpecies? They have the effrontery to fay, that, reducel to feek fafety in flight, I am gone to conceal my defeat in the fon hern part of the land. Well ten! Let them learn that I am ready; tha the thuuderbolt is going to fall upon their heads. Let them know that my foldiers are impatiently waiting the fignal to

Spaniards, you to whom I address myt, folely becaufe I wish to fave you; ou who, for having been guilty of evafion, all Ipeedily preferve your existence only far as my clemency may deign to fpare cu; it is yet time; abjure an error which may be fatal to you; and break off all onnection with my enemy if you with our blood may not be confounded with is. Name to me without delay that part of your territory on which my first blow s to be ftruck, or inform me whether I muft ftrike on all points without difcrimi nation. I give you fifteen days from the date of this notification to forward your left intentions, and to rally under my banners. You are not ignorant that all the roads of St. Domingo in every direction are famil iar to us; that more than once we have feen your difperfed bands fly before us. In a word, you know what I can do, and what I dare; think of your prefervation,

Receive here the facred promife which I make, not to do any thing against your perfonal fafety or your interes, if you fieze upon this occafion to fhew yourfelves worthy of being admitted amongst the chil.

dren of Hayti,

Head-Quarters, at the Cape, May 8th, 1804, fill year of Independence. The Governor-General,

(Signed)

DESSALINES.

A true Copy. The Secretary General,
JUSTE CHANLATTE.

Be it our weekly task,

66

ALTHOUGH we are all republi. cans all federalifts," yet, it feems, that all the federalifts are to be driven from office as foon as it can be determined which the expectants of their offices are most deferving of them. Major William Jackfon had been turned out of the office of 'urveyor for the port of Philadelphia, and Mr. Bache appointed to it. Mr. Bache is relation of B. F. Bache, who established the newspaper called the Aurora, and which afterwards became Duane's by his marrying widow Biche.

The prefent furvevor was a boy during the revolution. Major Jackfon at the commencement of it, received a commiffion in the regiment then commanded by general Pinckney.

When general Lincoln arrived in the fouthern ftates to take command of the armies in them, major Jackson became a member of his family. After the furrender of Charefton he accompanied general Lincoln to Philadelphia, where, at the clofe of the war (through the whole of which he had ferved) he commenced the ftudy of the law. The national convention which formed the Conftitution of the United States had three candidates prefented to them for the place of fecretary to the convention. The Virginia delegation fupported he pretenfions of Mr. Beckley, who went from Richmond to Philadelphia in full confidence of being appointed. Pennfylvania and fome of the eaftern ftates advocated the election of Mr. Frank. lin, who was the grand fon of doctor Franklin. Major Jackfon was nominated by the South Carolina delegation. His merits and his fervices obtained him the fecretaryfhip, although his rival, Mr. Beckley, came from Virginia, and Mr. THE BALANCE OFFICE, Franklin was recommended by being the Will be removed TO-MORROW to the grandion of that great patriot and fatef three ftory brick houfe belonging to Capt, man doctor Franklin, who was not only one of the most popular men in the nation, Hezekiah Pinkham, next door below the but also a member of the convention. New Market, near the City-Hall, and opGeneral Washington when elected prefi. pofite the Swan Tavern. As the proprie-dent of the United States, appointed ma. tor is incurring confiderable expence, by enlarging his office, and extending his bufinefs, he requests that every cuftomer who is in arrear, will render him a little affift

To note the passing tidings of the times.

Hudson, June 19, 1804.

ance.

jor Jackfon his fecretary. This station he
filled until the prefident was about retiring
from office, when that fenfe of justice
which always influenced the great mind of
that great, man, made him appoint major
Jackfon furveyor of the port of Phili-

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