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wmm " --f k,'.- i .;i ...... "' ; ' ; , , li ; - 3 50 c cuts Jjr .-i rijvrk. Ml ' ' " jfi 1 ' ' .'I-1' " ' . 1 1 ' ' 1 -r 'if'"' t . THURSDAY; ... V lll i ...-.! FIDItAL tiPOBLICAlf. - ' il THE H ' .wi. Carteret a?id Craven. .ferenccto ihc wlShe3 oi many ouin 'e4-thHmbla-.hGDe-of-benSE useful " try-.unin9uenced by.'ihotives of . in- .j.timU ijanamaic .wr your u- tender oi my services u w . v , without hesitation, and U not made i s nce tne avowai oi mr. OCltl , . I r mnnVA f VlOn rmination whicn iew cu rcivi- v,.w , t v, h,-en honoured tfith applications Afferent parts oi me uiric. w P,""" the atiDotntment ' Grate- he Hum"""'" .. t i . c - r.i;na as. these testimonials of conn ,nd affection necessarily were, yet a, com '.u.k.m m nnnosed bv too many con Lt.' not to occasion doubt and demand inflection. " A' reluctance to engage m Ltioneering contest-a distrust oi my V I. it. fnnr.tions "tof a National Lects ruicii'" .-. . i r a. .Kflnrfnnment of mv private and protes- HUB . - .J pursuits and the saenhee ot so many au nvments these and many other ob- C.l niril before me in stronc: array bteverhas been tneir lorce mey opcravc if., tK. iaiiKir9ti wish nt a maioruv H l UC US hviiuvii... " : J" tbU momentous period oi your concerns, to confide to me thi highly im- truit,asense of duty torDids me raue , Whether such Je your wish or riot I ible to ascertain, but by declaring my wil- ss to obey your call. . ited solely by these considerations i am it temptadon to deceive you ; and snouiu erly without excuse coum l aesccuu vu th aru nf rfpcention. If has been usual 1"v' 1 . w who have Dreceded me on similar occa - Emake an exposition of their political o have no difficultv in conriplyinj; with luisitions of this custon). Instead however ising you with the cabaUistic terms oi par si understood by those who use them most, 111 before you in plain and explicit language ding principles of my political creed, lorm- pTefleciron, conhrmea ty experience past or security for the future, we have received an accumulation oi outrages ucyuuu cAaiupic in the history of independent nations and : jare now menaced with'fi eslv denunciations of punishment and insulted with the most contumeUpus terms of reproach. " - ;. 'Z, In the divisions of parties which have distract- id purVCountrriacareely a-man-is totbe.-found who has nor taken some share. i ne pan wnicn I "have acted uJl of you know". In my political o pinions, 1 have always Deen nrm anuaeciaeai but I never nave, been, and fervently trust I ne ver shall be the slave of faction. ...None can abhor the intemperance of party spirit itwrcs than.iny self. None can be more fully convinced that it is atnnce the bane of social happiness, & the deadly . . .. i r... L:un.,l.I t A.iik. a: i nt national Drosucrnv. guu.u uiew uc ui- rected by you to occupy a seat in the Legislature of the Union, I wish it to be cusuncuy unaersiooa, thnr on everv occasion 1 shall consider it my duty to discover if possible wpat is rtgrut anajutit ana fcr my country's gooa-ma mis once asccnainea, h it inflexibly, whether it lead to the W w . I . , snnnnrt or to an oDDOsitiori of the views of admin istration .....whether it beo popular or unpopular ... whomever it may please, or wqoever u may II after this frank avowal, and upon these grounds, you should select me as tne depositary f vnnr mnfidence. I shall indeed feel myself hon- hv vnnr choice. As it will be my sacred , - . - duty, to will it be my nignesi grauiu.uuou, w make to you the only return in my power, by a faithful devotion of all my faculties (such as they are) to the promotion of your welfare. If how- ever you should -prtier some umsr uiumuuai, most cheerfully will I acquiesce in your determi nation, nor regret a continuance in tnai pnyaie station, which nothing can ever tempi me to re linquish, but a sense of duty and an otedience to your will. " . YVith sincere wishes for -your happiness indi vidually and collectively, ,1am uentiemen Your friend and fellow citizen, ; -WILLIAM GASTON Mwbern, JuneHO, i810. . .i tablished certain rules upon this point, and having f.HItip. MORIER, Esq. to be his majesty Sir,' thus acted clea rly within ihe purview of It conJ? cretary of Legation to'the United States ot Ame-. titntinnai nn'ri. its act trt that case is valid :and tlca. V ' . J- . . . - ig, at all times, and upon au persons. i nn 'i -' " v , . . ' flai l ian r AnuiAMibn i iuia ' In the hmir nf 1rtrr) F.a'rt P.rav nnH I jftTfl fifen- ville declared theii intention to support the dignity - : V d -7 r - i . objection has been anticipated, and-has already kn mo hf tK. Knimifl. nnH. it ru 4vnmhlv rttvi sumed, unanswerable? remark, that the rules of thtrase are mnairig upon memwrs oniy,ana upon them only while they Continue tnemWa-i. ine nue are maue lor me puijjusc wi,i:ejruaung debates and decisions They are in nd sense taws of the land. . It is a rule that members shairad dress the Speaker!ini s( certain jnannet j it is"an OlllCr AIMI-UW aIJ SUVA- oi IV) nn shall be silenced if theT do nott it Is an other, that they shall speak but . a certain number of times upon a question ; jt js anwner, mat tnetr votes shall be collected and the Decision announced in a particular fortriT These, , jand. eyery other "rule" that can be; mentioned, 1 relate to the temporary regulation . of the proceedings of a le gislative body ? So completely are all these rules temporary m their nature ana cnaracter, mat each successive House, assembles without any ml whatever, and the Clerk of the Drecedinc House, himself officially defunct as well as every other member of that HouseTalls for the .votes of member for a Speaker," because some ste must be taken, or the House can never organize itself I The 44 rules' are to precede the forma tion of " laws," and to enable the two Houses to form them, but , have no binding force upon any luvinnviinrair rnf van, ni I nr- v.auuuu ur ucviiim - " 1 j - . the time for which the members who make them are elected. The constituuonai power to " pun Jh members for disorderly behaviour, and, -with the concurrence of two thirds, expel a member' The minister of police (Fouche) has announced 13 tUUIIEklCU IT11H Ulk JWI'VI) V ..vniw 1 Ulb U V11C IIII'CIUI, lliai lilt VUI11 IlinilVl.lll 1.. ill vtv of proceeding," and this connection shews clear- tie of Valaacayhas ' gviiari'forinaiion of the in ly thatat was! not contemplated that' the rUestrodaction into that asUe.'flJaron'De'KpllU 1 t 1 . . - - ll.. t t it 1 IT . - S f T 1 .1 f . . Dnino. snouia operate upon pcrwua wvuer vuaii iuciHucrs, ; caumg nimseii a miuisier i r-iigwiiiuiv ""'a iuct9 ucjvmm iv vniiv jiv ?iiiiv.ii tutr i cruuiaiiU) iuc icguuuaic vl i'', d be elected, which should , make $oner in that castle.) Kolli is now a prisoner in such rules. The letter of the constitution does jViricennes. The diamonds, &c. of wbich he was not, therefore, enable the House to do more, in the bearer, ire deposited at the Police office . this respect, Jhan deteriniDq lUhe...raifis'tiittjil'U;re. follows -a UUtr- from1 Ferdinand apprising proceedings," that is, the rules that shall govern i the French' government of the conduct ot K.01I1: the House, that shall govern itt proceedings Also, a ceruhcateoUhe M.rquis Weiicsiey, as f ROM THI FREEMAN'S JOURNAL. LETTERS UPON FRENCH INFLUENCE. .... . . no. vi. - - TO THE PEOPLE OIrjylMJOTATfS . . ' . . 1 Wed by habit. ...A. decided attachment Although the writer ot tnese .encra o come k wvernment, which derives its origin to tne conuwiuu, ........ 0 r . . . . 1 1 1 . 1 1 - - in troen mnrenirn either tne 'be will of the People, and is estauiisnea oer no uoiiSuy. ... vwr-..----, -- - L.c,;t.,tVn,l.;rh ieUprrt Hncuments upon which Congress have act- sea 8UU uaroll'UUUV v,J',olvu""l, .. , r-- t .. - ed by Legislators and an Executive chosenled, or the secret debates of that body, yet various - a 1 a 'awm ms am r r anri - inn i-inisiiiri miiiii it 31.1.111 t. a vvi ub - - periods of service, not too short to per-1 tering upon the-developement-whiclr must result ntobe useful, nor too long to tree tnem trom sucn a ueiermiuduu.., c :u:i:... ..,k:u w; .,. f nnfliM't -.should be met ana resist netessarv sense oi responsiumi, muni i iu hjiowuio. i.UV- I...i;:n.r tiiico viptuniic. and Hp IfrL . . uuuf i juuiuaiTi niowi . .. vvuw.-.. 1 . L.. .k.:-. jt .'inn Vm rnntin. F.'arh mpmher of Coneressi as a solemn mtro- IUIUH IUCI1 KUUU MIIIUUW Kliv ui w...... . , '7. p , . , thp rir h. Mrirtlnn to' the solemn ' duties ' of htS high Station, kak and the powerful, are-alike - protected is obliged to take an oath to support the Co.nstitu k. -.,,: j . i4lm : atn:nfBit. I nr iK Tin.tl states. .In addition, therefore, iittaut- distinction of. persons : and the to those poweVful motives to duty which .are ever and proptrtyof every man secured from operative upon an honorable mind, in every scene nMi'-.-a sentiment interwoven witi. and situation ot nt;, tne man wuubwVwu, h;im.. u,,f a wil uff-t'mT. I n,nnv trt n.rfnrm a nart of thecreat tasK oi legis- Ny fixed veneration for. that Bond of U- lation, must commence his w6rkrbr calling Uod hat h- w!U nt air times support the I " uac' UIBJ1U1S.1I11'", IV JT1VHWJJ ..v ..v. ... - jl i V and on the preservation of which depend constitution from which he derives his power, in Hopes, to establish Justicer insure do its true spirit, and all, its parts. It will be said tTNnnn l t n.o. th rnmmnn 1 IP- I that althmirrh the letter OI IRIS . CUIWlHUHWi. uiiit MUSj U4A1 L J 11 f till W11V VVIUvii Limb faaaww ,- " . . promote the general Welfare, and steure authorises-Congress to keep secret a portion ot l!tKin f iik.... a ' .irivM ana mir fk: it inurnAls.' Wet the fair construction is that L..M . . . . . . j- I . J J-l . eViniit1 nlcn ppmnitl "if a conviction that it it- oe .once ois- their aocumems anu ucwi f it is gone forever--. a disposition to con- u..divulged. . This must : be mere .matter of opini Drov sionsin the snirit of those who on. One will think the spirit oi ine-consuiu nun f and adopted it, and with that candour Ms one fhir g, another that it is something else. f tonecan render it useful and efficient To the writer it appears that the spirit oi me coh jiples and: feelings which have grown stitution is publicity, and that the power to keep ii -rri.t t a wTmomalrlnihe r sy s- pZAdd to these, a wish to preserve in- tern. With him this important consideration de m good faith of the Nation, to cultivate rives neV force from the reflection, that the secret f spirit of justice and impartiality, peace proceedings to which he is inclined to direct; his Fn-ony withallToreipn.rjowers.-hut-nerer first. attention,,respectedlheexercisrf powers N or affection to surrender essential richts neculiarlv beloneiner to the House of Representa IV . I!" ' expressed his determination to support the Sii preroacy oi tne.JL.aw. v-v .- In the Commons a petition was presented from the Lord Mavor. Aldermen" and Liverv of, I. orw don, praying for the release of Sir Francis I3ur- (gen anu mr. Jones. r ii.was roovta toai it ue u the table-This" was; opposed, as the petition wav disrespectful and insolent; and after a second day'.s debate was negatived, la's to,3a . .L-i-: ' May 'i"U .LJ.. f The speaker acquainted the house that earl Moira had been served with a process at the suit of sir Franris RurdettJ as Constable of the Tower. The committee oh the privilege of the house reported that $he speaker ana sergeant at anus should be suffered to appear in court, and plead to the action brought against them by sir Francis Uurdett, tor talse imprisonment, which was agreed : tond the attorney-eeneral was ordered to defend them. , Pltmouth, Eng. May i. Last evening 72 nrisoners were landed from the Valiant, and escorted to Mill prison ; they are mostly Americans taken on board rrencn pr.iva teers ; several officers are among them who have considerable property about them. PARIS, April 29. - r - o , O while it exists, and neither letter nor snirit au thorises the House to impose, by any such rule, an injunction of secrecy upon any individual what ever, upon any subject whatever, beyond the period of its own constitutional existence. 4 "1f these arguments he exclusive. " as to the writer they appear to be, there is nothing on the . r j... : i.; r 1. : score oi uuiy inai can prevent nun itum maKiu as full a disclosure of concealed documents and debates a s he may deem essential to the' great ob ' ' W- .. 4.1 " iect he nas in view, dui dutt is one ming a credential for Kolli Also, a letter from the British King to Ferdinand, assuring the latter of his friendship and alliance ; of the means employe ed to rescue Spain tiom her invaders ;T ana ex-. hurting him 'to jescape trom hiv servitude. Then follows.!' p'ter from the goyefnor of Vallancay giving an account of the celebration of the 1st A pril, in honor of the Emperor s marriage Vat which the Spanish Princes testified their jojron the event, "and when Ferdinand rth gavstas ia toast" Our Jvgunt Sovereigns JvJPOLEGJv tfie polict another. A certain sense of decorum xAVTGreatf,and MARU LOUISA hit august bfiouse : propriety, also, isl always to be regarded. Al j-tiand also a letter from Prince. Ferdinand, declar- things that may be lawluimay not be expedient. !jng his wish to become the aoopteasoii oi ixAytK 1 I1C irUVCriUCIil 3IIUU1U UG Vi mil. m-mtv. v.- . ibuuij pect, even when it has ceased to respect; itself. - ..... . - . t i : 1 However, as the point ot duty nas -seen raaoe clear, that of policy will only be incidentally ex amined in the progressof the main subject,, to the view of, which the reader win be introduced without further delay. The Writer could never for one moment enter tain the idea of violating his oath to support the constitution ot his country.' Sooner . should his arms drop from hi shoulders, and his tongue become mute forever. But having given to the public the reasons whith convince his own mind that he is not about to be guilty of such a viola tion, he mjst now act under the impression 6F a sense of duty to the cause of Liberty and National " I . ' " ' V Independence, 'paramount to all other considera tions.' - " ' r - -iv .... . - rin th eTmninatinn of Kolli. he said he was Charles Leopold, Baron de Kolli, aged 32, a na live of Ireland, and minister to Ferdinand rth : That he came to France with proper credentials and letters to Ferdinand; that he had funds with him to the amount; of 200,000 francs ; that his project was to effect the escape of Ferdinand from his confinement; by stationing relays of horses and carriages to the coast, where a squadron of one sail of the line, a frigate, a brig and a galliot, un- , tier Commodore Gockburne, vwere stationed tp re- 'v pit to actual indignitiesa steady purpose anu promote the great Agricultural in i our Citizens, to give "a practicable en an? protection., to their lawful Com. tod (in subordination not in firejerence to Penary Objects) to foster the manufactur lishments of our Couhtry and you have outlines of my political faith It is that fumble pupiiin the. School of Washington. adraioistration it was illustriously exem p-By Him'n was enjoined in" his political fwt, the last and not the least valuable of jwom g,ft& to his Countrymen. to influence my conduct in whatever pi may .be placedicCflndour ' reqolresof i .?a acciare; thai the views and opinions HUM lrr -. . . . T- ' ' -o & URU utkailUII CUT., V- - v. -"b .iie uauuccHsiui fj.we then existing difficulties ofjlhe nati pn yet unchanged have indeed "derived IK fTOn experiedce. ' The course of uolicv f MMn-reprobated,,has t length been in a f measure .kani . . ... . . . 3M -.1 . ' T . i r t. . re public nurse and occasioned in f Private inrnn-.:!. .j .j u.j k. i - "-"'tii.ciitc anu uisircss auu uau L.e"e-tcd none of the obier.ts whTch ' were nae-ttnmriifi nrnu r.Mtimt.m ,r , . '-.-".fc. VT 111. VJICUfc U11V. V.V.. . - unseuied. and 'our injuries tives, as the guardians of the public treasure. rrt1rl t ever have been contempiatea oy me ucu- i- A..'.nr. Fm-maiinn nt the constitution, mat UIK, uuiiuji iiw .v. - 7-T.--7-- . riwi thniiin ne nasseu wmi twaturuuui whirh Khnnirt imnose neavy couu'iuuuwiia the public purse? Laws which should drain the tnn frvr nhierts whic.fi no monai COUiu uaye had in view, at the time of the organization ot the government J Laws Calculated to abandon the high character ot me nation, bs an iimciiutm nuM;;. and to convert the Deonle,. not only, a- o.5nct thpJr will, hnt without their knowledere, in- c uin j-- , ... : . o . .. : ... a . 1 : 1 i. . k.imM. aiiiimiiantft tor tavor ana mcrcv . me iif iiLiiiivv.w rr - - . . ' ' ; ;,S Could uch things be, - . ' : Andovereonie wriik' luimrt eldui!.;" rf ' Without our special Wonder r Tt ; imnnssible-that suclf "can be the spirit of . I A.i T a, . n m omvit out excellent trame 01 govcinuicyu i , opr.. of liberty, not a (spirit of despotism It is a sp rit of rational limitation, not a spirit of indefinite extension. It is. a spirit of republican honor, not a spirit of national degradation. . . : Againj it will be sain, mat aunougii mc iciicr nf thU tnrt-of the constitution may Justify the course which is now pyrsued, yet jhe-letter ot another part of that instrument js -conclusive to the contrary. racn wouse may ucieiuuuc . fules of its proceedings," Ccc. It will be contend LONDUN, May; 14. The Hazette contains eeneral GrahanVs and captain Machine's official account of-4jie evacua tion of the fort of Matagordarsituated on the main land opposite to Fort Punta, in the inner harbour of Cadiz. It was garrisoned by 142 British sol diers and seamen, under captain Maclaine. ? It stood, r two nionths i n vestinentf anci fas a neap nf mine whn lft. The valiant defence cost us v a utiif ( - o the lives of Major Lefebvre, of the Engineers, and 15 privates; we aiso nau a lieutenant, iwq ; M.tinm.n onrt fririiratpSwniinHpr?. - lliiijaiiiiiii..i " 1 . - - - The French papers are full of official accounts anu BMUllisiiea 111 upaiii , n kv ui itihv.ii the Spaniards were the assailants, but who, as is always the case in the rrencn accounts, weteuis . ant lint tnTtiehes ! '-Letters from Gibraltar state, that feounVTilly and a f rencn spy naa ocm seni irom mat gam reive' t hem That he was accompanied by M. de t . t l - 1 . if. .1 nnrA ir-if ViaVmcr tsntmA u oonnci ; luai uuuci pivuwy vi-ih curious articles diamonds to sell, he auempien to nhiairi an interview with Prince Ferdinand,, in order to put into bis liands the letters he W33eh7 trusted with ; but. that tire Jf rmce retusea euner to hear or see him : and hTiad i reason to believe' that he sent information of his proposals to the governor ot the castle,:, which occasioneu ms av, rest, r '"';.'. . ; on to Cadiz, "to be" tried. The reports of victory over the French in Catalonia; by general O'Don nell." are corroborated. ":::r":"W" 5i " Our squadron uniler Sir James Saumarez, has saieiy arrivcu m 111c un.i . 7 T h e F.mnerbr NaDoleon is on a visit to I loll and On the 4th of May, King Louis sat out to meet h i i : ,., . -. . ' ' -' . ;. ,m. r - . . ' . We learn from Malta, '.that ; the Sublime Porte had given mr. aair me mosi i,uaii.c Boaiuouwto of Ihe Grand Seignior's determination to maintain invioiaie ius.a.aaiiv. vnu uis American Vessels are hot excluded frpra Swe dish ports, as Was expected. VM1. the, American " - - . . . . .1 . a . i j vessels which arrived between tne sain uii. anu the period at which the Jast letters, came away were admitted at uottenDurgn Foreign Officii jifcv.o. rttJOIIN .J. jet unredressed. From the JMn-iru.es ot us proceeaings, c i " r , . nceinstead .of- 'atonement for the j ed thatjhe -House Repffe Translated for the fMadeljihia Gazette. Mexico, April 26, 1810.' The -faithful -city t)f-MexicpTin -conjunction - with the illustrious ' Vice King, gave yesterday a ?b-ni nnrrnf their enerv and the contempt ia vcr I which they hold the vile efforts bf thedetestable Joseph Bonaparte to subvert our ioyaimmas. uu rintr last week, and while tneiauniui wereceicorac- o J - , ., j fi:-..-. ing the mystery ot our reaemuon, ana lmpiormj; . at the foot of the altar assistance in tnese 'iryu;.- times, there fell into the hands of . the govern-- ment, through, an act ot Divine I'royiaence, a number 6f Proclamations -which the "mfamous -Jp-,v, s seph Bonaparte had sent to Amenc pyr taitniess ; emiisanes, equally ignorant as himself. 7 - These proclamations abounding wuu piwim, threats foolishness, perfidy and brutality,1 met the reception they justly -merited; it being order- cd that they- should be committed to the flame v which was doneryesjerday morning, wiuiaiime. . selemnitf uStil in cases of flagfanelirRuencyi . -The portrait ot our beioveo leguima e u ci -irrt Ferriinnnfl VI 1th. was elevated In the granl square, iii front of which was "constructed a pyr?- mid where in the presence-oi a-notary aim vw-.. stables of the Court, the public Kxtrtipmrr set fire to thejdespicable--and indecent proclamatic 'i of the Quixote, King. v . '. ; - r V The whole square was unech wmi troops v. valry and infantry j and a concourse of at ka.t a hundred thousand persons suing iuc v.. v. . of this square , the' tops of housef, steeple s ard balconies, who bad tmitedlo ; pronounce the pu ) i: Anathemas with which a relieious and laithiiit jnatiott condemns in its heart a tyrannic usurps, , :t-
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