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i. i i1, ! sxiaJi -4 3- si Vr, r I "fl f 4 a r-.'f 'I r t 6 . U m J 1 ..1 .1 ' WINTER SONG. ' Bt Robeit BtooxrtKiB 'From his Rural Poems, receatljr , .published. DEAR Boy, throw that Jcicle down, Arid "sweep' the deep snov fronts f Ae ": - door i . ' " - V Old winter comes -wi with a frown j i terrible frownfor the poor i a season to rude and forlorn, Mcf tan ape, hovt can tnfancy tear ; TAe silent neglect and the scorn '' Of those vfho have plenty to spare? fresh hroach'd is my task of old ale, Irell ttmdnow the frost ts setjn ; Here's Job come to tell us a talet We'll make him at home to a pin, While my wife and I bask o'er the fre, The frost of the season vill prove, That time may diminish desire, " But cannot extinguish true lone 0 the pleasures of neighborly chat, , If you can but. keep scaridat atay, To learn what the world lias been at, And what the great Orators say Tho' the wind through the crivices sing, And hail down the chimney febour.d, I'm happier than many a King, , While, the bellows blow bass to the . sound. Abundance was never my bt'j Bat out of the trifle that's giv'n, That no curse may alight on my cot, I'll distribute the boun ty of Heaven : J he fool and the slave gather wealth, But if I add nought to tiiy store, Tet while I keep Conscience in health, ' Pve a mine that will ne'er gro-s poor,- I Prom the Petersburg Republican. .: No man ought to eah himfelf ttpon the foperior advantagerhe enjoy in ihi life, when fo Coon he cm be reduced to level .with the moll oLfcure of. man kind.' But Qill we every day behold men of fortune, on whom ihe coy dame na deigned to imnt. at tuiror prioe ana oftentation as an eaflern monarch, wifh ing I tutnple upon hit felfow.citizen. Men who have been compelled, by the ' tyranny and opprelTinn of their own rountry, to feelc refage in ihi ; others whom the fpirit of iheii taws havii g ex pelled (hem from iheir native . flwret, ' bend their courfe for oun, being certain - of finding an tTvlnm for lhcmfelve, Ind , expeling a more certain defence fjr their villante. .Thofe men, who, by their indudry and other meant, have ac. .cumulated wetft), now erjoy trire fcliei ty,' lo the great difadvjnuge of native Amertcant, ever whom they wifh to d tnineer, and behold them at oljefli nor -wnnh their notice, ro'wiihflanding it it from ihtmthey receive their chief fup. port. But let thofe furvil: wrstclici turn 'heir eye to their own country, id ifli ihrrefelvei what thry were there but the font of Englifli hofller', Infh and Scotch weavers and V'elch goat keepert ; but now they fly l theniMvfi SntUroen, although their dfcent gVer e lie to the afTerticn. But petnjpt tit p'oud and hmgSiv fpirit of thufe men may yet b4 humbled, and when re. dneed to low life, may become feofible of tbeir former redifbloui and I npoliu'c behavior. The lime may eome when the rwcful of the earth will be no Ion gerablt f govern, when they (ball be conveyed ti .that M bourne from whence no frettUtr returns," then bebqld ibe littler.afi of human grande-ir,' that once laifed it head mij!lir, but now fallen, , trovtla to thetarth. , .CURSOR. PetetfburgS; Feb 8, 1803. ADVERTISEMENT. THE fubfetiber again offers for fait his valuable plantation on Holly4 Shelter. For the convenience of piirchalcrty the r'tclt-lanli (hall be 10 diviJed at to make two capi. tal fctttemVris The terms wlibe rtuxlcrate. One half of the purchafe tronej will be required to be pa t J down, the rcfidue in twelve & eieh eenmonthi. .M.SAMPSON. Noyember 15. THE fubfetiber takrs this me ihoJ to offer, hit Cervices to tbecommuntty in general, and par. ticulatly to thofe of his fellow. ci. tiiens who are Iradefoien and me m .sad outlet, and whole time 11 more profiiaMf employed jhan bf draw. In off their own accoun't, to poll their booki and draw and fettle'their accounti with accuracy and dil- t atch on very reafonable terms ; n.) alio to draw tip Agreement! AH Bon Mor'g be At V"' pl' ft "to ippN at .the houfe he now occupies In Ew ani'i alley, uhrre any commands ill be promptly attended to, anj the fmallffl fifmir ar VnowleHged. . JOHN!!. BELCHER. Wilairjton, Jaouijj A. , . r . THOMAS PAINE, ' To thx CiTizEvsofthe U. States. .' Letter the ffth. " , IT is always the interest of "afar greater part of the nation to have a thing right than to have s thing wrong. and, toerefore, in a country whose go vernment is founded on the system of election and Tepresentation, the fate. of every party is decided by. its princi ples. ' ; As this system is . the only term and principle of. government by which li berty can be preserved; and the only one that can embrace all the varieties of a great extent of country, it neces sarily follows that to have the ajTepre- sentauon real, the. flection must be real: and that where clectiotf is fac- tionrhdepresentation is a faction al so. Like will always produce its like. y A'jrreat deal has been said writ ten concerning the conduct of Mr. Uurr, during the' late, contest m the federal legislature, whether Mr. Jef ferson or Mr. Burr should be declared President of the United States. Mr. Burr has been accusetl of intriguing to obtain the' presidency Whether this charge be substantiated or not makes little or no part of the purport of this,! letter. 1 nere is a point of much more ifnportance to attend Jq thanany thing that relates to the individual Mr. Burr, for the great point' is not whether Mr. Burr has intrigued, but whether the legislature has intrigued with him ? Mr. Ogden, a relation of one of the senators of New-Jersey of the same itame, and of the party assuming the style of federalists, has written a letter published in the"9New-Yovk papers, signed with his name, the purport of which is to exculpate Mr. Burr, from the charges against him. In this let tcr he says " ! When about to return from Washington, two or three members of Congress, of the federal party, spoke to me of their views as to the election of a president, desiring me to converse with col. Burr on the subject, and to ascertain whether he would enter into terms. On my return to New-York, I called on col. Burrj and communicated the above to him.' He explicitly de clined his explanation, and did neither propose nor agree to any terms." How nearlyus human cunning alli ed to folly ! the animals to whom na ture hti given the faculty we call cun- nhr, know always when to use it, and use it wisely j but when man descends totilnnlng. he blunders and betryt Mr. Ogden s letter is Intended to exculpate Mr. Burr from the charge of intriguing to obtain the presidency ; and the letter that he (Ogden) writes for this purpose is direct evidence a- gain-it his party in congress; that they intrigued with Burr to obtain him for president, and employed him (Ogden) for that purpose. Trxtve Aa-on he betrays Mj:ej, and turns informer a gainst the golL-n coif. It is but of little imoortan. e to the word to knor if Mr. Burr listened .to an intriguing proposal, but it is of great importance to the constituents to know if their representatives in con- eressmade one. Th ear can commit no crime, but the tongue may: and therefore, the right policy is to drop Mr. Burr as being only the hearer, and direct t!ie whole charge against the federal faction in congress as the active original culprit, or, if the priests will have scripture f r it, as the aer pent that bcguilded Eve. Trtenlot .of the intiitue was to make Mr. Burr president on the pri vate conditio of his agreeing to, and enteriog into terms with them, that is, with the OroDOSers. Had then this election been made, the country, know ine nothing oflhis f nvate and illegal transaction, would have supposed,, for who couKl hive supposed otherwise, that U had a president accenting to th forms, principles, ana salentions ol the constitution. No suclTiliing. Every firm, principle, and intention of the coostitut on would have been iolatcd 5 and instead of a president, it would have had a mute, a sort ofimagi hand bound and tongue tied, the dupe and alave of a party, placed on the theatre o(ihe United States, and acting the farce of president. It is of little importance, In a con stitutional aense, to know what the terms to be proposed miRhtbe, because any terms Other than those which lht constitution prescribes to a president is criminal. Neither do I see br ! Mr. Burr, or any person, put in the tame condition could have taken , the oath prescribed ty the const Morion to tittrttertt.brMnt anditi th ton- -Mitvtioi of the United States. . How, laik, could such a person havetakensuch.au oath, knowing at the same time that he had entered in to the presidency on terms unknown kn the constitution and private, and which would depriva him of the frea- -Iron the National InlsUigtnttr, - ftAwWAi aC fii-ttnv a at a mA f of theUnited.$tatesl ggrecablf to his constitutional oath. Z , Mr Burr, by uotagreeing to terms, has escaped the danger to which they exposed him, and the perjury that would have followed, and also the pu nishment annexed 'Uhe.reto. . : Had he accepted-the presidency, cm .terms un known in the Constitution and private land had the "transaction afterwards transpired' (which : it most probably would, for roguery is a thing difScuit to'coriceal) it would have produced a sensation in the, country too violent to be qyietted and too just to be resisted ; and in any case the election must have been void. J ' - .t But what are we to think of those mehibersbf congress, who, having ta kenanoathW the same constitutional import "of the oath of the president, violate thai oath by - tampering to Ob tain a president on private conditions. ! If this i3 net sedition against the con i stitution and the country;; it is clifH j cult to define what sedition in a repre sentatiye1 can be. , -w ' Say not that thisstatement of the case is the effect of personal or party resentment. r-Nov - It is the effect- ol ; sincere'eoncern that such corruption, of j which this is but a sample, - should in the short space of a few years, have ci'ept into atvcbqntry that had the fair est opportunity, ' that providence ever gave within the knowledge 01 history, of making itself an illustrious exam- ple-to theworld. j What tlie terms were, ot were to be it is probably we shall never know ; or what 13 more, , probable, that feigned ones, u any, wtu ue given, nui ironi 'P 'II l- ' T1 . A: the conduct of the party since that time, wc may conclude, that no taxes would have been taken ofT, thatthe cla- moup for war would have been kept up, new expences incurred, and taxes and offices increased in consequence ; and among the articles of a private na- ttire that the leaders in this sedkicus trafio were to stipulate with the mock ; President lor lucrative appointments -l ':-" - r- , luriuiunLm... . --- ' 1 But if these plotters against the constitution understood their business, ; and they hod been plotting long e-' noughto be masters of it, a single arti cle would have. comprehended every: thinghich is ' . . . I That the President (thus made) j should be governed in all cases whatsoever by a private junto cppoir.t.ed by thcnuehes. I hey could then through the medi um 'of a mock-president have negati ved all bills which the party in con- gres could not hay,?. .Opposed with suc cess, and, reduced -representation to a nol'ility. The country has lx;en unposcd up on, ami the real culprits are but tew; and as it is necessary' for the peace, harmony, and honour 01 the union, to separate the deteiver from the decei ved, the betrayer Iromthe betrayed, that men who once m ere friends, and that in the worst of; times, should be friends again, it is necessary, as a be ginning, that mis nark business be broufcht to a full investigation. Oc- den's letter is direct evidence of the fictof tampering to obtain a condi tional president. He knows the two or three members of congress that commissi'Mwd him, and they know who cotninisioitcd them. THOMAS PAINE. Federal City, Ja!U 2?. .. ; NEW. YORK, Jar-.-ji. Capt. WelcJl, from Ne Orleant, in- lormt ut, that no ihe acta Ucccmbrr a French corbtn iTnf r arrivri there from Havanna, .'to ; elan prur' taken by r reach priien, and which were in in overnor'a poffeffion. lhejp"rt o? New'OflrsM eMiiruti nn I but the gietnor had girn perro'tlnon to the .Ktr-o 1 emit dwn ire rifer. ard JifihaT' their carixi on boatd Ameri tan ttlTdi or 1 hm (ot fomai lima back, the Ittwrrof the le bad prevented die liehtera frorar eemrc to rewUrrarii, Ftcbchtivota wers cxpectc J there daily. EatraD cf a letter from the captain of an American veffcl at New-Urleana to hit ovnera in tbii city dated, Decem ber 18, iVoit On try arrival here I found the port Diut namfl Amcucan vrUe'a, without allowing then iveo place ot dtpufi', We ate pctnined the free ravijatjon of the rtver. a4 art una requite 10 report ' ..... . at tne town, bat a!Unafein ihl ureatr. I hive diuaart rd pari of ih ajo, and 0a'l hate ano'iVr boat alone ndc 10 day 10 iaai in ipf tor r-ajrnei. a n' Vjerx ff t .j.' ... Clinton Va Ul unloaded. I ana told by the b ft irfomtd"nxrchnt here, that tllrU arc l-bl wbill lyi ta the airam, b-tt lutk goodt only at ate le.itd Siift landifi. 1 bop. 10 ba able 10 cb-ain retura fi(iki a fooa at ray cargo ta put, . Jamea Maroe, fcf. w araaeftK- tned, u eariftd bit pafTil t Ha- frf.de.Grare, m ike (hip Watrca, wbic b is iaicndf d to fad ffoaa tbii tort 9994if atat PHILADEliilA, Januarys 6. If . P- J rnlV F.itrart of a letter from Cadiz, 20th Of . Nov. to a merchant in this city. " The ship Old Tom, capt. Mor- ! ton, has just arrived from your river, ! but would not be admitted, and there- fore obliged to sail immediately ; I understand she intends proceeding tor i..isoon. . . . i; Wi" hnw nntVmtr np-or here We I are very desirous that the Spanisli1! stage coaches is hereby provided fori minister or consul general to tr?e Uni- j.for a distance of 403 miles, viz. fronv '. ted States, should advise ofRcially the ; lion existence of the yellow-fever with ! you, as without such advices, the ri- lignrous quarantine imposed here, will rjot be relaxed. - The American consul haa repre sented to the governor the great hard- M shiporthis quarantine, and prayed that j the articles of provisions which cannot 'j contain contagion may be admitted i The answer when obtained I will send you." ; '..' -- - ' ' . '.' . .' NORFOLK, February 5. ' Captain Ramsay, arrived here yes terday from St. Andero, in Spain, in forms that the Spaniards do not allow a single American vessel into their ports, until they have performed a long quarantine in some distant port from Spain; and that they' are by. no means friendly to the American trade. COMMERCIAL -OJicial. The island of St. Martins having been restored to the ' Batavian Republic, and possession taken by the Dutch forces, the merchants- of the United States are hereby informed, that every encouragement will be gi ven to commercial intercourse with the United States of America. . Port-au-Prince, Dec. ' 20 Island produce high ; molasses 45 cents, cof fee 16, beef 13 dolls, pork 20, flour 9, hoops and staves 30, corn 4 dolls.' per barrel, butter 15 cents, lard 35 sous. Prom the Ilavannah, Dec. 1 6. " The demand for horses has been but a tem porary affair,' and is now over ; after the expiration of this month, no mer chandize of any description, will be allowed entry in American bottoms." A law suit arose in an University, upon the point, whether the Doctors in Law, or the Doctors in Medicine, should hold the precedence? The Judge asked the Council, whether it was usual for the thief or hangman to walk first at an execution ? . Being answered that the thief always walked first. M Then" said the Judge, " let the Doctors in Law have the prece dence, und let the Doctors in Medicine be next in rank. , Extract of a lam letter from Lend,. " Hemp is sccrce here and deman ded at 451. sterling per ton, and it is supposed there is not one' hundred bunrllesi.n the importers h.-yndi. 3000 tons have litcly been purchased in Pe- tcrsbrrrgh for the irench Republic- some as high r.5 33 n-llcs. February 8. Latef j.ii the CAPE. . iv an nrnvni ,urt:ny in 11 ".nrs ' from Ci'pe-rranrois. we or? m'm-rnc', ; thdtthe bl.icks art still msvirs of ti e plains and rnnunudns in tl e tH-l.thbor ( hood of that pnce. The h ;t s still occupied a few outposts na si. -.1 dis tance from the city, whCre !!'? have erected block houses to co-cr them. It was understood, thut the hl.'.cVs had ! been for some time! pnst, buny in oh- tructinr the public rov's, communi cating from thence to the other prin cipal parts of the isltnd ; and thut they had rendered most of them impassible even onhorsebacV. Business there very dull, few arri vals, particularly of American vesnrt.- Amencans treated tsith extreme!? par tial severity, in every respect, espc. ciallv thoso who rciidcd in the island. The public treasury was so drained of I cash as to refuse to satisfy even sm"ll warrants on it by the proper author tiea. No troops of anr conseoucnc'c had arrived as late as the 23d of Janu- aB TL I.V.I.:..... .(, -II- 1 iic iiiiiauuama were u obli ged to turn out to do military duly The irrrilrr rr1 tt lt in1t rftit. - o t ! r . m r forcemcnt arrived from ranee, about six. weeks ago, had died. NEWrOST-OFMCn ARRANGE MENTS.' We tet a sentiment of lively satis faction in announcing to the public Out the new arrangements for the transmission of thi mail will com T rnence on the 20th dav of this month. li This satisfaction is .increased by the I reflection that the e-'peration of the arS j rangements will impartially promote I ! the intcresta uf every desenpuon of 1 1 .ii . ..... . 1. . 1 ciuicna, ana aau at n " v in win- on. Br these arrangements I An entire unbroken line nf mail stages Is established from TortUnd, in Maine, to Sara.nr-.ah, in Georgia j a diMance of I340milcs. II. UoJcr U4yiauritaUiihnseot this distance will be run in 1 5 days '; andnuiTTeTlhethTef establislnuent in 21 days. That is ; under the summer estub- Jlishment ' . From Washington to Portland-a, distance of 620 miles, infi've days and a half.. '.: - " From Washineton' to Savannah. I distanse of 720 ; miles, j8 eighf dya ana a nair. IIL-Phe carriage of the mail in Petersburgh to Charleston, ver which the mail has heretofore been; carried -on horses. ;-v - ' -; : . IV. The pcst-master-gencral wa ' authorised by congress to incur an ex- pence of one-third additional to that already borne,' for the carnage of the man jn coacnes insieaa 01 oy nprscs. But the icontractsJiave been made on terms so' advantageous to the United States, that an immediate additional expence will only be incurred of about 1500 dollars.a year ; and this small additional expence has arisen from the. inability legally lo vacate old contracts; when these fall in, which will be in October, 1804, there will be no addi tional expence whatever. , - -. V. The contracts are mode for five years : by which the permanence oT , . similar arrangements may be consi dered as effected. . We shall not dilate on the great im portance of. these arrangements.- When, however, we compare the pre sent improved and extended situation of the post-office department with its. comraciea iimus a lew years since, nw anticipation of the ultimate , and we may add no distant power of this de- partment to facilitate tpistolary inter- coy rse, and to diffuse , information ot every description through . every sec tion of the union, can be toosonguine. Notwithstanding the great extension ofrout.es, and increase of offices, .the treasury of this establishment, is full of what may be called redundant wealth. We trust that our ftllow-citizena know how to appreciate the energy and fidelity of those official labours which foster an establishment whose benefits are so intimately interwoven with individual and national happiness. We trust that the disposition of a go vernment to open new channels of information-will be fully realized and properly approved ; and thatthe Ame rican people will perceive that it ijh less the policy of the virtuous rulers of a free republic to give the widest publicity to their measures, than it ts that of .vicious ma.rStratesjto ahrpud themselves in darkness.' We understand thct the tibove 40ff miles, on which stage coaches have, been established, constitutes but a small part f that distance for which the present post mtistcr-gcneral, not withstanding the tin t I'criod of his official existence, lias tstablishetl them) and tlttinlhe whole he has established conches for about J,3C0 miles. . National Intelligencer. 4& H!i(f3. cf Mob'ifes, m i rorttd in 'fre khooner liir, car-tail !, Dtnnii, fiom Martii.ico. . ALSO, Coffee in brgi, Cordage, lie. Ar, ' ' HOWARD & TILLJNGIIAST. Fehrnarr 17. - 1 , jujlimportfcl, And to be fr.f.1 ut redfinoble friitt hr C Jb tr FnJutt. BAKDAPOES, Mor. fr. J rat. an.l St. Ctoix i aim - r in hhd.-atid barrel, - Ct lTe in barre's and bJ, ' Suritam Moljffri, RuITu Iron, by the ion orctvt. N.'E. Rum, Ac. JOCELIN, GAUTftR, U Co. Decem?er 0. Siii 1 ill'' bales. - , . Cfl tie Text Dy f Mirth next, WILL EIL,S0LD Uitjrr ire Ceurl.Ihuft in ihU Uwn. ' TWO valuable Lctsof Ground one fnuatrd on the call fillet Front'Stfect, adioipinkr John Mar. tin and Dr. De KofTctt j the tnhrr " on the tll fi !e of faid ftreel, jute below Mr. John Bradley's white houfe an.l adjoining Major JoHri Walkers Lot, on the wnaii-tla prorerty of John D'akcly. dcceafrMi to latiaty fundry ciccutioni to uie' . directed. ' ALSO, A Houfe & Lotn t Third, fl reef , the properly of Michael Kenan, deceafed, to fatitfy an rxecuiion,. the Executor of I (ugh 'Campbell; dcceafcJ, vs. faid Kena. Wu, BLUnWOKfHa Stfl. WiltniPun Jan. 37. iw 'I i V;.
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