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FRIDAY, APRIL 112, 1811;.
N6.-78.
V'ot. 16.
' , t. ' jii.Jj? ' V - i f 1 !
When ia matf Ww apjinted 7 reK
tLce, and while that oominapnw pending
thought ItOUe irora; wie.utvur wi, jiuuiivn.
. . tn mik Vnoarn the nftfitness of
Lafldidatt for ths jitwation, .-and tbc disappro
it would meet yrith, 'and therelorcJtie fitde
trracrtpawas wrUten, giving a brief biography
if Mr. Barlow, .The next :.sil, dneypectwJly,
bweW the news of his appointment byihe
'" 11 . , -n.rnt I
gofnorcroetiyi aca naying no perrojuu w wi
rtrds the' minister to gratify, rff.Titrtba
h!f never have troubled our readers wmrtne sud
ct again, but unfortunately for Mr Bar W, he
Udafriend and this friend who adxipts-ie aigna
m of Amicus, has entered the jl.sts-iq his de
tnce, agiinst "the contempU6le leditor of , the
EnniDg Post,' that "prostituted' vehicle of de-amat-on,''
a he expresses it 1 This friend, though
I admits that Mr. Barlow was a chaplain in
jh Atnencan armf , rescn my uiwki5 ima
ith having once been Connecticut CJergymao,
siddenieahe ever was ao, In doing so, his
unpion of Mr. Barlow wilfully mistakes the
; nothing could oe lunner irom my mien
qutssrstdr make ttft'tr, governors fc; grearmen oG . ' Ttm.3:n t tAV K. a r
but the princip4 part of tHem wre artisans and ;. The nsx9 Prm 'tfinfty. to had two
ptrsons in middle life ; such as leather breeches instaitees ofnfeft, idroitness uh which Mr.JSar
maker ship'Wnghls, silver.
and probably hairdressers
prohose to lay acqueductsi
mechanics to iJUild 'Maftliatten water woAs, nor a
gentteman to inspect them at 1S00 dollars a year.
They set sail as sbdn aVthxyrwere ready, and
landed at AmboyC The printipida in the specu
lation feeing notified oi their Wival, assisted them,
so tares to proie meai toiransport tnemon 10
the city of (eUtioirM, where they were;' leit to
themselves.' To tbeir otter astonishmc'nt,' these
poor Frenchmen found themselves, jn the"toid6t
(Jt mmmene wtklcrnes nd at frightful dis
Uiice frotcTall ci vilitiori-iJldH'ever, theVe they
wVlW 4nd ttieiethey-imisCremahvj thef had m
choice but to live along 'as-well as they could.
Unused to the climate arid to their new situations,
wretched n'd' forlorn, thfy-begatt to decline and
die with 'rapidity ; -'and M finish their miafortunes,
they found before a great, while, that they had no
title to the land. Those that remained, ' at length
presented a statement 6f their whole case to Con
gress, and petitioned for a Rrant ; which was made
them, to the amount of 24,600 acres. Here we
must leave them, and turn once mo"re to Joel Bar
low and his friend Play fair at Pans.
" Joel and Piayfair had touched the purchase mo
ney, and a round sum It was. inty, however,
'souths, confectioners, slow conducted himseit in tne capacity ot Rn agent
: Hut 4s they did not abroad. e - sjjaii bow present ; a; tiunj ot less
thev neither brought interestine than eUheTrt oi1 the others ,r ,
. , o 1
sum t?:a air David CargiH, an American born j
ythto immediately took it in hand. -, , (
He presently diBcovertd that the Com misfti on
ers under the conventiony had liquidated the de ,
mands inthe "case tejf the Hanpah, and made VttT
award on the 9th of June 10$, for, principal, iu
terest and expences, amounting to Jouttem tftour
eight hundred and ffi three rating, Jmir
ihitlingt and teven June sierliog 'i which feum wa
rmade parable 00 the account,-and foi the sole vise
1 - . ' t '.-1 li?Jt '.'ijt' .1
ot cxiwaro tnurcn, nis iieira ana assigns, in uxree
anndal instalment- ;twocf whichhadictua!ly betp
paid to Church, or ." his tepresentatite-i jhc jh;.-d 'e
was payable' t the xpiraUo of . th July' JiW5 '
;Thus lary we Jf ve-aei.itng tha unpu-
across the Atlantic, to see if he could not find out
ub than to state such fact as a charge but I took Irood cure to sav nothinc about it to their
the charge was, that Barlow officiated as Cler I employers in America. Months elapsed, but no
.-rain, in that state, and then apostatised from satisfactory account came ; letters followed upon
ihe ry religion that he had been 1 professing and ; letters, and still neither money nor explanation
presetting. I was received in return. At length th, company
Tfeathe was a Ctertnrman In Connecticut, aniJttent a .renileman of character 6ml inteilitrence.
m. m wbHca.iv preacnea ine cnnstian reucion,
iftertat revolution, will no longer, I fancy, be
mhH; the Jrirnd is before this time, better in
irmtd at to rhit. I shall satisfy Mm as to the
ber. The following s an extract from a letter
iJurl Bartow's on this subject, written at Ham-
ifffttolii friend in this city i a copy of which
L full krig-h, lies before me.
I. I rejoice at the progress ot good sense over
! k dswAiblg imfutiittt of Christian Mummery, I
ill bo doubt of the effect of Puin's Age of Ilea
limuube cavilled at a whik, but it mutt
' -mil. Though things as good have been often
ILuJ ft merm ',A in est crrwwf . I
m ;!id to set a translation, and so line a one,
4 Manger's Chritttaxitme DrvzXc. It la re-
laarkuSf correct and elegant ' I have
tinite his - fortune with Mr Barlow's, fiilton liv
ed under the '' same -Jpoli with him ; they Agreed,
it issaid, .to an equal division of property, svlth
remainder over to the, longest liver, ?nd here it
was that by their joint invention the Torpedo ma
chines, were first brought into the world, and un
der their inspection, properly constructed. But
more of this anon. Let us proceed to another of
Mr. Barlow's agencies, or to speak with partial
bir correctness, his ,sub agencies, for here lie ap
peared in the character of an agent of an agent.
- In the begining of the year 1793, the ship Han
nah, owned, by the House of May and Hills, of
Savannah, was fitted out for London. Mayi one
of the firm, Soon followed the chip and fitted her
out again for Bordeaux, consigned to a Mr.Church,
to whom he transmitted an order to sell her.
Church accordingly, sold her, to Romberg Bapts
and Co. a House in Bordeaux, for 3,500 pounds
sterling, payable in bills upon London. But he
informed the owners that he sold her for only
Mr. Barlow fled to Paris, , Jacobin of the first
order; having been; a,. member W all tliersedi
t,ious societies in-(Jondonv r la France h joined
Tom Paine,' and laoon' distinguished -himstlfiby
d!sorganixing,.itjktinfe against ;all estartished
der aWug'emnen vii&j fti$ Haturalited ahd
received the'traCeroal Vu'as: ikifood krifiMfiti.
He then fevered liiniself a ' ejndiJaleftap
the Naial Kiop
riiris, lie was joined oy.- ir r-MKOfl, woo. came mm cates our , tuewrr rencu t lyuuisier ine f eaoer
Mr. Joel, and bring him to sotrtt account. ' Joel'"l,8o9 pounds, thus petting 1,700 pounds into his
ho found in Paiis, but alas! pAr was Joel, and own pocket. As the war between France and
pitiful was his story1.' That he atfj Piayfair had England had then commenced, it was not safe
effected a sale at a crown an acre, and lltat the for her to sail underFrench-eolotirs, and itwas
purchase money had been i-creived, he did riot therefor rgre;d between the two purchasers and
deny, but he added titat I'iiv foir had go: the whole Church, thth the American Consul at Lisbon, that
of it. and run oil' with it ; leaving hun as poor as he should cuvrr the ship and cargo, that she
jachurrh mouse, and consequently unable in p; y phnuKi coi.tin :e to ear the American nag; sail
a dodar Here emlh the informat ion as to Mr. as ahip owned by Cmuch, and make brr voyage
Barlow's first essay in France it) tnecbtracttr cf in t'u name ; fur which fraudulent conduct, he
an sf.rnt.
The nfxt case which we shall I
public, is found in the mc n't '
StMi'it Admiralty Reports. Ai ..- '
is all our limits will per,n'.
In the summer f i79. ' '
it til ii n
oil
W3s to rtctive loo pounds sterling annually; be
s'ttle s -mmission of fur per cent on every car.
u; vbe '-i take on " board. Romberg Bapst
not had
m n compare utt wnoia oi ine translation witn:u, tt, rn.ru,-,,. ,x a,.. ,
isdgtnaLbBtafar m I hare compared U If towgMict, '""-
ww . ww, ue.r t&r.iHn. -Awtki
Off 10 the ship Fortnti; VMUfl In- -
fed el basta. I bare not, at this moment, the Utrchints, by the namc
-" - - ":v " . w w carry U'emi'J iUurstir.es . zt.v - e
-ss, Uut ttey nrsy c correctea in anatntT ei- ti Wt Wllh (;crN 4 h
1 wish Mr. , would go on, anJ
-n aS ib next volume, the hlary : that Jamout
mi tiack St . PACtf" ate.
tiers f atbp for it present. If the letter is
wed, t-r dn:bts are expressed, as to its being
mtm tto wk4e f It sH'l be fciven, with the
a tbt pcrsos t whom it was adJressed.
Ktw, then, where is Bartow' fiirndf Does
we sund ready to dcSftvd him 00 this point
againat the !r famation of the " despicable f
ethe Cven.r.g Postf. But we have not
t sm with Mr. Jl Barlow Pubbc curiosity
"m brtn raised alou; rum, and it has a right to
k(VL&cd.
ut it not be sujpo-rd, however, that the a
.tUtbt topic tvi which, only, we alluded in
Ta-lit s paper We art not idle, and as soon
ti'.t nu'.Kr placed in our possession, can be
,rtv??d, whkb wil ptobably be in time for to.
brow's paper, cr the csal cumber, at farthest.
t ViON TMS SAMS.
V French Matter ftt it Rot our de
to caaaViac inf Xtr, Barhiw'a history any
H as an gtat for others. As to this, the pub-'
k fcwsnww rtrht to be tnkrineL lor the admi
ha cta sit to commit to his care very
rw aid rftrmterettr-tT the nationr; and
k. hondraJt t iaditidiuls wdl base to look
aiyaavc, ia their attempts, (tain attempts !)
ntr tat i roperty 'lo the amount of untold
a jsLasTathi part of Mr. Uarluw'a hie, then,
t 'iil cotf6rt vmlff a:l. --- . .- . w'"
lm Mr. Barliv'a first mission t France.
'kad ef ! that cevrttry before the present go
atest wi formed, as agtnt t a company of
Hitw'ibaji.' This company, having made
a W?f for tract f some thousand acres on
pud lor at a future day, in cer.
- ' v. v mm w.i WW ' w MM .....
ihcw to dispose e-f it to settlers. He
C nit.
bet to send out vc.:c -i;;uU
Qgr-Ivui this tvirpos.:, Im'."w
of her, in his owu ncmCi cr -'. s.
its! -:wt m. (.t.iui.ii 'he Hannah to a Mr.Bosc and
t o. fr-m the Cape to Lisbon, fcc After which
'hty convtyed u Jicir property in her, together
ir v r. , T.'th ;h..-tt rights to the fneght, to Kunale and
, , r , - . v--,. J j.t slup waathen Cued out for JUsboii, at
v 1 . . ; v .. 4h pi:' " .jveh si ill rosWetf In the -capaciif
V A -ci e;of Cc: "ul. At Li4xn she was fined oot by M.
u i.j.-', to Bosi. Tr St. 1 itoinas, w here hc arrived in safe
" r being ty, disponed of prt cf her cargo, and the busi
i thought i"css being all done in the nr.me of Chaich, the
t . 2 American proceeds were remi'ted on h,s account to his cor
- a bill of sale ,rponpents in the United States, amountmg to
i.t her with the 47 12 dollars Cipu PaTot Went thence to C;ves,
ma? begin uy0&dr we , hav caostuSved UJ
ktbi,s me aboit iwr. , vnurcn. e must not, be
impaenl. i ItcVas. necessary, we thought, to-gie
aU these-; particulars preparatory to lntrpducmg
r :..Bailosjr 'stip(the"-rtaps,'t' for when he is jn
troducedn iti; will-be 1 for . no leas a .rnurpQse than- . ,
to sheW that he was 'an associate in this scene of
fraud and cruelty, and divided the Iprcfit with -.
Church. To proceed r v . .
The owners of the ship cargo being reduced
nearly to a tate o( despairVas has teen just stat
ed, sent a air. Peters to; Paris .to. see if Churcb,
who was then supposed ttt bet there," would fci ve
a sum in cross for their claim to the ihip,, and
and take it to himself. . Church was hot' to be r
found ; but know ine that Mr. Barlow was very inti
mate with him, Peters toundout from Joel, to whoca,, , '
he communicated every; .thing relating to the af i .
fair from its comthencemeht to that period,
far as had come to the knowledge, of his employ-
ers t concluding wttn en oner 10 seu unurcn nie i
claim to the ship, for. a certain sum, vastly belosr V
her value, provided, however, the consent of the
owners could be obtained. This Barlow comma -
fnicated to Church, who closed with the offer, but
it afterwards fell through i owing to the refusal cf . J
one of the parlies concerned to yield his right for
so small a sum. l tie neat tbing e learn ot
what took place betweelL Barlow and Chualt, .
will best appear by the following note, from the -v
former to the latter after they had talked over the
business together v
Dear Sir I received your note this morning;
8c came immediately over to see you. But not find
irtg you at Mr. Saint Ucoige's, 1 ask his permis
sion to write ou a word. If 1 could see you half
an hour tcmorrow, I think I could hapc a firefi'm.
tiOH TMAT WOVI D 3E US4.IUI. TO US BOTH TftfitCt
tug the affuir cf which tre eM" as 1 have a suui;
loTafiatrnow pending, fof whitb t go to London!
Can ytal come and see me to morrow and tak a
ciip of tea with me I I btlieve I could roakr the
Jfjr march faster and to better advantage than
almost any man. 1 am to et off theday after to
morrow. Come, if you can, to tea, and let us see
hat can be done. Yours truly.
-- J. BARLOW
priveis to Marsriilcs, liiiectii g the captain to wheie he made an 'advantageous sale, took in a
destroy the instrument when be pot there. Had. cargo of. produce, and again fitted out for New
the transaction ended here, no fctame would have York May Uth, 1794; being the fourth voyage
been ascribed t the Conul i but Joel, it seems, the shin had made, and of course eivinir Church a
thought this too gv.d an opporTUhity for making premium of 16 ier cent. 4 per cent, upon each-
something, to be lost , he, therefore, despatched But thcmieiLiy
v t, rtM, and hunted up a rood mas.
oaeilayfair, wteh whota he formid a
"sry- j L.r, im liort iroiepi Toduced
:.'.t;'JM ,riPfJct of. Jovi materials; in
T,. i.t -. iyM!eVed tbe Lui4,- iHfcuml
: V twt ttawn ths tit of NcwYoil,
IfrMtk'yhi, theie, Bilimtort and Charles
.J? ,4 r4Ue d ants, .Clt5f (that was the
lit .titt ie-M M) about where' U
desiraCtt it ahould '.'b pt ; indeed, lit
;.':'best ttm of :thclur,: !aid'out: into
: ciiaiiin-foT and wanting no
U4 m j,.,, jjj aWiSil wj tetiJeri, jl(t to
ant s la Jkhojttu Mcssra. Bar--'
' ""-MTajIanr tlBV.ctl a sab; of it at a crown
e, i tcnuaoy cf ptople in raris,-with
- ;,.., Aitese vonu;ca oa a Jew .mar
a letter to a Capt. hmith, an Ahi
les, in wluchTOccTwwdsTarc iMnd t L.TheJews
who own the ship, wish you to take the command
of the vessel errr iltr jlmericana leave her, I wish
you to keep this a secret for the present. A bill
of sale was, at the same time sent on, and deli
veixdto Smith, by one of the Jews, signed w J
Bacri, acting by order and for account of Mr. J.
Barl-m," Smith accordingly, received the bill of
sale, and took upon himself the command cf the
ship, under protection of the Jlititritan j al
though she comuiued to be tHe sole ndr entire
pt operty of Messrs. Uusnah and Bacii. About the
middle of Novem'w he set sail in bailast for Honat
on the coist of Af kca. where she arrived in Jan
uary following, and was immediately hdenwith a
cargo" t ( whcaN to be detisered at Marseilles;
though in the btil tf lad.ng spetifiwl for Genoa
In which, also, the cat go pppcared to be shipped
by the aforesaid. Busnah and Bacri, Ihe Algerlne
Jews On tbisAoysgc shc wis capTured by" the
English. The Jews wtnt to the Dey, and made
a representation U the w hole matter, complaining
that their roper' Ifad been captured while sail
ing ndeOheLfOTfrionjffr4ththe kbw!edge
c i tbe Amciican consul. The Dcy then sent for
Mr, Joel Barlow and demanded satisfaction ; and
Mr. Joel Barlow, to get out oi hia scrape, very
honestly sat down ai d drew an order upon his go
vernment for the sum of S 40,387 2-3 the sum de
manded as the value of the ship and cargo, to be
paid within six months in Algiers ; and if not
then paid, giving them a right to draw at three
mouths sight on the American government, pay
ardelnrThiladelpliiaTT'l'ne ffsl draughrwssTduTy
honored by the drawers, on'preimptionjhat
iia agent had fairly rendered them accountable
for it. Afterwards, however, a suit was instituted
byrdcrpi)j of Ad-
stand irt the place of the Algweijnji chanis, and
svas met by the English frigate, the Success,
captured and scnt jnto Jamaica, where vessel and
rnrtrn nrro -nnl-lV nrl . !,nf fn rantain. thff
name and on the account of the apparent owner,
Mr. Church, appealed to the High Court of Ad
miralty, in England. The real owners could not
appear in the affair, but were obliged to trust en
tirely to the honour, the activity and zeal of
Church ; observing perfect silence Year pas
sed away after year, but they could getTno infor
mation from Church what had become of their
In short a bargain was struck tetwen Church and
Barlow under a knowledge of all the circumstacces
of the case by the latter ; who bought of the for
mer, all right and title to the claim for both ship
and cargo, lor tne sum oi uw pounos sierimg
lined special permission frc
Duke of Portland, through the American minister,
to come to England to prosecute the claim before
the Commissioners, Mr-JBatiow once more shew
ed his face in London,
The new French IWnit(er(in amtir.uation J
I After Mr. Barlow had arrived in England and -
! i , if i :.t- .l r...
maae nimseu acquam wun ine larurauie euua
tion to which the claim had been already brought,
he wrote to his friend Fulton, in Paris, for the
purpose ' of getting a little more money out of
property. At length, however after a vast deal of Church ; as will appear from the following copy
enquiry & expence they learned that the court in
London had reversed the decree below, fc order,
ed restitution of "ship and car-o.- There could,
then,' be only -one possible difficulty in the way of
recovering their property ; the insolvency of the
captors ; hut, as in that case the English , govern
ment itself would become responsible, the claim
was perfectly good; and nothing would be neces
sy bun6presi
the convention otl8Q2Allihis .-was. welUknwwn to
Church, Sc he took his measures accordingly. But
he communicated neither his . means nor. his suc
cess to his principals. They pressed him, they soli
cited him tq .interest himself for them. He induced
them ( tayti ifteMemoireJ to believe that he had
taken no steps in the afl'air ;; he suffered them to
reproach hiui with nt Riigencefsnd received, with
out emotion, tlitir letters conjuring him, that,
since he would do nothing himself, he would, at
least, send a power of Adorney to his agent,' in
London, Mr." Thomas Wilson, to act for him.
These unhappy owners were much mistaken- II
Church r was blameab'e in his
them,' it was not for his neclicence. He had act
ed both with zeal and success ; but alas I it was
not for them. . t- v
These gentleman (the mrmoire proceeds) jnes
led bytheir cctissiiies and their private ml sfor-
tunca, discouraged by thesilenceandjhe appa-
reclaim the propKrtyOn thtsriabtheouvf-iHmlifferencfi dtbarredlby tt
factscame 'out, apt both ship and cargo were ntwal "of the' war btweeinncad.Ila'mli'
rMjemnar i nus ia
iag naa oecn prosucuieu oy tne American Consul, J
to views-of private interest f-whichxostheumeIj
ncan govemment upwards of Forty IThwavd
ces of Joel's '.zealous efforta tor the interests of
his native country," alluded to by his friend in the
rubuc 4d'eru&tr XTuesMy iast.
England ; ) retired, principally, into the depart
menti .of jheJnteriqpfFnce4 where it became
oiore diCricuH to attend to such a business as this t
theyemwtdj
and
was
than
of a lettcrJrom the former to the latter :
" Mr. Cuubch, '-:-.' .'. "';;;' :
Sir, I have' just received letters from Mr. Bar
low It seems the business of the Hannah's cargo
is involved in much' complication, and tharjarring
interests render the prospect of obtaining any thing
for.it, even doubtful. You will see Mr. Bat!o
considers the claim of capt. Parrot, well founded,
tnd a'mochlarger sumj; than ycu had any idea of r
He therefore, proposes that one half of the sum to
be paid to the captain, shall be paid by yw but oi'
the 6009' fiounda terlirg; and the other: hat ty
hLn, Barlow j otherwise, he cannot, in Jhicejo
himself, and tn heparties' concerned, have the
award made in his name you will be so good, as
to consider this, and I will have tho honor of cal
ling on you, toro'orroW, Sunday about 2 o'clock.
(Signed) v ROB. FULTQN."
Whether Church agreed to this proposal of liisi
friend Barlow's, Or how they settled the honoura
ble business, we do not know, nor is. it of conse
quence to ascertain. The award was made in
conduct tuwardsj London, for the sum of fourteen' thousand, tight
hundred and jorty- three fioundt, four hlullingt at.d
itvtn pence 9terjine. This claim had been pur
chased by Barlow of Church for 'tlx thoxnand )'
thus putting into his pocket eight thtuandt:efgJi:
tiundred andorty three ficvrtct four 1 tttid w
hence itcrling. . A very hnndsome sjim of rrrorvv
to mkelbvriing
. . - .... ' ' M i . .'. I
no manner ot ngnt to.miM u,ajj.ojuymg ai-.ms-..:. i
claim -wnicn ne nao nOrAiKJAU LBrit-anajyincn , A
merely appcrcainisiifmt ti;auHet 4 ,
purpose of covering Frenth prortyntier the T r
.Amertcan'Bagi' all of 'which honest -Joe! was ptr.:
itJfiUUo,seILayjtherf Irom the btxwritr tathet
tide for what Ibey could get,-to some onejwho Jend,5- 7- '?V-5f'fr ' . TP'S'''-j't
better able to.prosecutef tne ana.tr.to advantage! ; ; ' -;rz-Jiji- v - 'r
they. - Accordingly, they said it of a triSsiiikT' Air-TfSStec to ChurclR. riTr'i-rw-4- i
n
I