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'VA.- -rvv ' ' --A- ,t- v i ."- A - :: . ;CA A;A A;r';A ViV'i ' V', -A VrA- ?A. ? , A; v- 'iter raorcotieiJ with thspirit'ef the anstitu- ct!s,wcreven -Ttte (a"s: Wight tdp) to i when the-interior ol tonaoit forma . striking J -CJ:U vv? y V . -rs' .tWt iharh-rs. which hreaent. secure the OrodUce damowc cvJflence, ior ccnvunc pasip vesemoiancc wiui uic imii9r'Or .uonsianimoniei, , c" T5 V jteWAfn,! thVpovrer of wverciens, land th-obe. to this fery time, tfw&shittpU&m i?ffV dience ana line saiciy 01 jiw suu cciu w vww iy w,fj"-iyt .",nj ,r"'r"r--irr;z p"-; y ' ' '.t.j'' r.:"A .1 "y -ri' li' Via "9W o'Rer tQ'areiildersXsS!!1 B?son Patriot) c'he following oiihvniWrMMl Iff, prorvjw'd W arUtt, . . yft Uiftlldt. : Brimli ' Ulf th?vprtncipal Eurdpeanlabjnets, thered .Mi price to M ntHgttcd witK'the ?ne. must.;bev uWtiSiidttouV itt:)hi)i resblvnd firm mlesofhis: country ;.Iifaereptbr;bi.or.r Jnd vi-rordus in 'iheir'DMceBdineW"vjfeit.cLAV ceived instructions from TiVaJbr inimical feabinets f. . "O - r - - ; . r - 7 . V 1-'.,- .... I 1 11 111 (he fact.. .ve ntitnerf;sawu inc. ,ur;gjnai .i5u. tr 'the t of CtfSrti rip? haf we.thchain J evidence which verifie this "pin&tiotf 0 f-tfdf because1 it confuji' froiOot srhaiha;jtte ; W u T 1 a 1 1 ,P o s t f A r if.iir s'poN t I km t r tt-J - 'Tlk : Anil .nt r i E' 1 otjiec states, compose' her whole strength Ano thec constitution, must be offered her. .,.if she pjf'udehUy adopts J.t, berindependence antl do mituoiisr will be guaranteed ;but if she js blihd anil obstinUe enougb id refuse;remiifee( ij civi!i2tfdgcweWVrnrntslt 'will repudiAte, htr joreyer upm tne great unwijr jw,. ic-juuropca ine NO tcjrs, m every sppwncej ..iuojtw tfocnluivn- tf.t&etn Co? itfri We , call on ererr independentv AmeHcaQi efitor who may be Ike unimpressed with ah' idea of i importance, tugive it acirCulaonfeWe Vish tb press it up- the consideratiao of every American reader. ' At present, w shall make no further comment to ihall frequently refef to it hereafter whih; we ,ymm as we intendf a series of dissertations on fhaiwe'coiUieiVe be, the best course of policy it cur country tCf adopt to retrieve her honor, and .y... irt1rtnrpnr . y " v CAPITAL PUNISHMENT, SHALL I!E IN FLICTED OV" THE MASTER AND CREW! Thpbgh th majdr'ity might be cionvinced, a des- peraie minciriiy voua . comaiana. - in tungianp, as has .becrf hcVase b.France, ittibns caft never b'e,meni1edKhey mXmt be extirpded. 'Sonifr few pej-sontfmtiobl,. orhanfafat.ln- cara.ctersand forttines,, 'alay s i;n3ctvtKeVtencVof the ttIcQst'U ses dangers tot6e feace pf 'Europbjr cwita-KiousexamplesyAAfy- , . v lople. at the period the, .MusBlcrnen were at' its walls,' and with their scymetats soon settled the disputes Lofthe contending sects krjd parties. '',:?...:.-:'- t . ivery ireiit anvfluer ot ine unjisjr iiiantis nas become i their qonqucror.pankrbptcpym3y mantle $ mutiny, may dispevise ;' storms mHy dts troy, and victoryjmay capture fleets,- hitlieiia. the' sole protectors of Great Britain -against the just w rai h of his Imperial "and Royal Majesty . Sub mission, atone, ,cqa prevent Britain ,frotyv' beiag Hke the Bauviaos, erased rom. the' list of indei pendent rbauons. yeiKtaiice may retard in niakiH never produced a hero. 4nd;ihedcme8tfc Virfaes oiva prihcei-uliw; tbs ftirbuJent antffactitius tiias Jiierre weak pkgfts that the repose'ofcontinertf ; tal tiatiohs will .not Uvt, . disturbed ;qr ipyadtd. It remainshQweVei', to jbe ,ecided,Avheilliec a Change of dynasty will be, necessary;' or a cUnge of constitution .will be thought sulHcienii f.Lorig a-go,-.. ermeHilViSA(;oC' .n. ;'ln5perial and Royal Alajesty mjgit. Br'tajlft ay It belongs to history to recapitulate the many recent acts of the, dariig spirit of Britis factions and of their influtnee on the internal adTxlernal OFTHE SHIPS Of ANY FOREIGN CO UN- polWwcf Preat Britain ; of their comrtibft-fefoci-' TRjfRADING WITH HER antthe law ofty a?id barbarity. But had they ;no,t; power after hightr)eason shall be., 'executed on smugglers, trampling under their .feet P,rmce of theRoyal purcliasers and sellers or her productions modttii.a. .T'h nins' and regulations, 'mav at liberated, whm he oueht to have acted, who ad- an Imperfect view appear rather severe j,..butjvanccd when he 'should hate retreated, and whoSb : factions caused 'fq be ladefor,his; Imperial and without them a truce alane can be sinned, but a 'retreat was a disorderly flight before a handful of Royal Majesty, 'b peaces can never be concludes, between ner ana pursuers wnne mcy ioi cb anmner general u re the continent, y This severity tewards her, thsre- -sigi), thcugh victoi inis,, because t lie climate, 'the fore, is a real humanity with regard to il nations! tkments and other unforeseen occurrences, pre upon the globe not excluding Great Britain her- yent .'inf succeeig to the whole extent of 'ex. selfThis fact may be proved without ary diffi. tiava't extatifms ; Ivave they not force.l.thcir Stfihe command of. his matestr. the.empe'rorcuity,-- oVIhe- possibinty .of a contradieiioTvrrlf-king to leave unpunished a political agent who de- isd k)r, mr' woltfiBTaous'uveiyigitvT Englishmen were made of" those matt: rials that served x6 he impeached, For want of ability 6t of jBll so yuui ommanicatioii FRENCH 'TATE PAPER., to your . cxcdlency the following confidential .' corajpMe''aU'. other pepple, it would require little integrity in 'disobeying Sc disfegavdmg his instruc maiucatioii.r,It displays an imparti human mind, to .foretell. the . tipns ? ' Have they -not forced their king to leave reat question .of Peace and'War j'it ; sjtbVmbSt'' 'flitterinei&sue, without resorting to extre-i unrewarded another political agent, whose firm- thk PTtiL duestion cieirlf the source from which the past arid pre-j . m' . 1 -v. . in - . : 1 Knt misery, manaina onginaw unu now. Ha' soipe itries ago the British Islands teen swaUoweff faint the ; seas' that enebmpass 'them, then, thEumpea continent-would hdve wntiined only a grand and united faintly. , W it jessing its superior civilization and prosperity, the. inhabitants) bfy the mother parts of the world, Would then have strjved to obtain with it a social toamacr, or a political adoptionThe slaughter of generations .and the devastations ,o! nations. ould then have been unknown. A slight chas tisement would then have been sufficient to intim idjte the reMctory and correct the disobedient; milies .but they differ totally from the rest of the ness and whre obedience to the orders of his sov. human species . "' ...jereign cxpo&ed htm .'to 'public -insult and 'personal Who",can deny,, that a British King according dangers i fiave they not forced their king to swal to the, organized constitutional' anarchy .of his king- low, without daring tf resent, these and other pro. domvis now the most humbled of slaves ? When vocations, though offered by the most ,vrak and the monarch' is not free, how darev .his subjects ' contemptible -of governments ? But in all the bran talk of liberty ? The tluth is that' the bondage ches of the constitutional establishments of Great of Englishmen, beconies heavier as it ascends , Britain, factions sway an anarchical iron'sceptre, it emanates fiom the Jowest of the rabble, a set confounding, deranging and in vading all order, of tyrants, ignorant' and brutal corrupt and op Has not a captain in the British fleet, cruizing in presiive. .... yyv"'"- , " i i Europe, drrgged his admiral before a c.ourt mav. Is that monarch pot a slave, who is deprived of tialj though : thq latter has been honorably acq iit selecting his ovni counseljbrs and servants ? Who, ted, Sc have not fictions shield-.d the aecuser from during a reiga of half a century has among scores punishments I Have not, officers ' Serving"- in the by all 'aa'iWBSiOutTful i subjects', tvould then haye. like of trust ; byvsix,: he could li'Ce or trust V b'snutirty i"i hailed their prince as another Providence. But' six, he could love or esteem? Are the fetters of ed rebellion to insubordin3'iOi, and held out the hen men begin to canvass the adoration of their jthat royal "parent light, who during months is ' most dastardly and perjurious proceedings as mer heavenly creator, they will not long hesitate to as : forced to see and hear a beloved son, the butt oliitorious acts of patrioiisni and of etuliating jus mil the prerogatives of their earthly' sovereigns, the most maltcuant nassions. of the most mu'iw"-' tice' ? Is not the licentiousness of the' British press r.ebellioii is the twi.nibroth.er of impiety. Anarchy k a'Jieism ae; theirmmon offspring. The Eng. Ush WicklifThad the sacriiigious audaoityto pro pose innovations in religion,, long before the Bohe, nian Huss jk the Saxon Luther proclaimed-theru iclves heretic tl. The. latter would not have dared to stir, had not EngUnd already distributed its poison among ' the Germans ; they merely took Advantage of a contagion, sutfat ed to become po tular, byrthe igabrance and vices of the clergy, mn py ine apany antirirnpoiicy pi govajaems. thetnost unrmncipled. pi con apnaior& tant and debased oLmen I Do these Ministers , such, thatTprotecied-a'Hl natroriized bv factions, a deserve the name of freemen, who are. obTigtd To ct.nvicted libeller, publishes from his ptisonsthe le undutifult and ungrateful to the prince who most inflammatory of essays, defying the Jaws and has elevated them to flatter d licentious mob, that -exciting civil discords, insulting equally the judge utsjj.sc, yisuiif.uieni i x yv nai sncuukwe. conceive wnojeonaemnea mm sm government mat carried port and plahs for effecting rfevplutions.- -But these are not times to, encouragl; ot tolpfrnut subjects to undermine e st a bl i s h ed 't h rjne s.; 1 Mbnarclis,' a lonef shall hereafter,' be thFJuagea'Mpnafchsi" " and woe' to the Prince iyhp rrts t5r: En appeal to lyis people against the sen tence i-of' hliequali Xti I He Jias cease lto-reigmz" .:v3AA''. A , , JFontainebleaUy Oct. " SOVA, ISIQ. tiiitM , . (bigried) DUKE OF CADORy A' To his Excellency, -A .' T: : . Most Confidential. v-;y 4 . y g v,i I ' 1 ! ' - 1 Domestic. R. SMITH'S:Al)bRESS. yA: To the Pecjile tf jhe United Statei y To the people of the United' States I owe,8i, exposition of the circumstances,' which ; have prc duccd my resignation of the : office of Secretary ' of State. This, duty, irksome as it is, it is my pur pose now to perform. It is unexpectedly devolvi . ed upon me by the irresistible necessity of obviat-, . ing the honest misapprehensions of some and the ajm m; inau, seuuecy .'tneir- sojaivrs ioimio" uuairpicsciuauujis vi uu.cjia. yuiouaiu-. Have they Jiot, backed' by factTcni, add eo, thtnrw t retuctanuy am, tocotr tortn, X nave in j,ne omstroruy to.prcmibe, taattms ex position shall be nothing but a brief unvarhjshed statement of facts, with ihe superadditinCof only such observations as may occasionally be .necessa ry to a distiiiit vnderstanding of the narration. My , rbjectis the vindication of myself : '.and if in this vindication there should be involved any serious questions' as to; Mr. Madispii, it will only be be cause sucha result is.'inevitableAlnthisr'vnder of the headsorthe heartstl sworn ro'yal cotinsCllors their sentence into execution f IlM.:nQt a chief ;i.ainR.I;hw Since this timej In ...particular ; Etigland has never been quiet within herself,- inU has. never ceased to disturb the tranquility of, other states. As might have been foisem, the success of the ie Viotis irinoVaters encouraged ,' the attempt of pa-, liiical incendiaries. The continent waS( inundat ed with thfi bhsphemous ' and perverse reveries rf English anti.christtahs audi English 'anti-monaF. cltists. They sapped- the very foundation of so rial order. To prove .'.their tliprodgh contempt, fcr all institutions, diviners well as sacred, they o petted their teiiiplts to the most ignofantand, via t)M of fanatics and delivered the most virtuous of their king into the hands of t he moat-ferocious of tegicides. How ,'tuany millions of contlfiental liuropeans ,nave notuieu, oecausc tnese isianoei'S ftad with impunity braved their God and butcher fl ttieir Monarch 'Alas ! said' feelingly his i m. pw3Tiri3oyiaVmef; -perpttrations,'L'oliS iwv i, might still have reign ea, atii a Kanriv obscurity been mv lot. Sunremi wuiority i t)kft; an inadequate uidemnity for toy wiieiy and labor to be the soverrgn of the reat t of nations) --In fact if the infernal assassins of wtusXvL vwere debased Frenchmen; they had eeif tutored by; English sophistry ; they . had wen ftiisled?by eXaiiple or seduced by :?the gold fih'e Engliih factibri$. ; Is it" not En gland alone ""KB ats moment distracts Europe, anucaus tSthe bload of its r.hildren Whe laVi&lvH in Tun: Vy, Germany, Spain,vS,icily and' Portugal ? Has; U-is imperial and royal majesty almost yearly in the nivd.st pf hii most Splended achieve fco,l:. pRbeiittd the olive branchlwaysrinter; '.' 0vp with lauvelsi ;.tO';irgrateful. 'England often h"$s he jiot, froni the bottom of hls.Hpatvi soul, in .'Vairi;excjaime Ms youv iu jrien, and Testerm yotf j. warriors 1 a,l; h'ttraan carnagelWata'Ben4-.Let pUii ag-' winaiiiiyivtHts itob: Jong lost rights: tfeiet "s oeuteodi Upo'ii terms .reciprocally honorable ! our future rivalry .be. to enlighten instead .sof who dare not save the bosom' of their prince from of faction,'.-who is. also a member of parliament, torture, and the character of his child from unjmtr honestly told this asseinblythatTihe . nation was ignominy, though they must know that the tor.. not represented by its representatives, and that metiiot s are the most profh -ale ot villi uis and their country was not worth defending : W ere I conspuaUu;.&iWJiAtaniuiItbev not instantlv all fire, thosevery factions that be the-staudaid of'the honS'fcfancbHity, that nor-shsrtly before with such admirable and philosophi. only not interferes between the iri famous-".sissilylc'sl patience heard the son pf th'eiit.king'Tl'jrnost un- ersot,a prince of the blood, but sv-flt-s some of. its . r. - . .1 . -- m. . . . A . - - auaenment to me oyat lamiiy, p'jrchr.se openly, i Uirther ,t.bloodshed,alactjoas . jury pronounces tneluture, sdence about one ot the sons of tneir them murderous, because they did their duty and kingi- whbra'VCas' tardiy poisible .anynew sian- did not submit tojbe' mnf d'eted themselves"by" the decoal(S-;derajl:more than unnaturally, to in hands of the rebellious factions !! ! volve ahother'son of iheir king, in theJisrace ofy,; '1 liAproprietor of a theatre in London, aog. his brother ?Can any decency or any lo'yolty be ; mtnl a .trifle 'the priceof admittance. : English supposed to exist, amons the citiaensof the first ! mn. like tha Remans of saneumarv meniorv. do 5 city pf the 'British empire, lio not onlyjoin the Inot miss such a propitious oppoftuhity to create h vile fiends,. of their sverwgn every where, but en. new factions. .:..Thepst'is:gust;ng. scenes, .the courage, tne senseless pratjngs of insolent ynu ig. effects of the most shameful licentiousness, trans "roymg oitr feliow.beings rf But his imperial .;ltJ r,yal majesty, has addressed himseltoa go :5ment' tooTweak to dare' to, bte juaft,iartd tdo P AYerful not tobe capable of doing rjntiichief i ialid .l nl5trioo selfish to feel firythe' suffering of aihers, and too licenBoas .to attend to its real iii- own memuers to , act as accomj'iicf s i:i the ps sault? Can these representatives .i ihc 'people have any pretence to liberty, loyuhyvpr p'atrioHsm, who i do not expel 1 or .punish i the factions and trai- tors among them, that try to stab nicnarchy by bespattering the son of their monarch ? What" freedom ;, or what loyalty must t'he,e pretended friends of the throne possesss, who to show their ! mercifully ill used r ;Uiu not these friends of lib--crty immediately decree a mandate of arrest at irainst the declaimer of this disagreeable truth, of this- bold trankness ? Now British anarchy ex hibUid .itself in all its dreadfuk glory. Faction combats faction. Numbers of lives are losttn the very street J of the capital, where a civilVar rages wit!i all its fury. But mailt: when at last,' the humanity of the king orders his guards to prevent J, out norant shopkeepers,1 never opening their mouth buCtPi babble some impertinence but to bawl oi treason ?r Did;. a .single county interpose, in the shamefully and cruelly audacious, hunt of the royal victim l! Did not, on the contrary, every county, emutale in" this race of infamy, which should be foremost to wpu'rid the feelings of their venerable' king, and to recompense the outrage-, ous perpetrations of the bitter enemies of. his do mestic peace as much as-his royal supremacy ? Is, it not evident, even to the most superficial ob server, that either sound morality or rational liber ty must bu wantingin the British nation f If it would be uncharitable V to suppose the former, it would also be ridiculoui not to see the total ab sence of the later. -.,;..rTA .... ' . .yyi-y . wlnreat Britain ; faction meddles tvith every iking and every body ; eventhe king is factious'in seltdefeiJcejArsgself preservadMAlIaveAnoiiL however, jbpth in ancient .andpdefn'timesf bptb ift'GreeFe;'artd;.Fi'ante-jf both in Rome 8t in ;Eri. gland, i'actions always been the most oppressive of despots T Have : nat factions'; always ; and tverv where, been the mpaiunsoflicentiousn'essd the assassins of frecdomi Have not factions at all timesi been intolerantr daring, umustGncorrikible? i;To judge-" py the Scandalous scenes in the- British lianas,-which an indignant cbntihent have la- tion T v e dl.urb.ed u,u" th-ejeonstuu..! mentedjpf late, little hope'remains, that the fac- "" iiusn empire is leiormeu, m a man. uons, there, wovdJ ; desist .from: their nelarioas to buffeti a sform that will be excited by the parasites of powjr t , but L; aV the some time, en-, joy the consolation" of having' in my view the A; merman axiom " measures and not men j' the dis-, tinguished characteristic of the' independent peo- pie of a representative republici; , Besides, ft, is a a truth pbvipai3ver firmed by universal experience,'-that u in all ex ertions of duty something is to be ha4arde,d'A ' Mr. Madison's offe t meofbe mission td 4.. Russia, which hevallbwed to be of the utmost imrtnrfan'rA ,A t. fAbvif- ytf ttt-1 Ittit .Qraf.v "1 and the most honorable appointment abroad that is ' : in the gift of our "'government," is demohsiSrativev'' , prpoi 01 nisconnuence in xneas to auemy snu aj,. v; to capacity in'public ';aifairs. 'IV. ;S' A ''' ' Afe't: a tiis unci-,ws accoinuaiiicu witn many ousei vations, in aDDearsnce resDectfullv madeiras totA isted be.tween him and myself with respect tocer. tainr . keowre and to'., certain nothiiiattons, and -iriV WKicn-ne':-secmca.ia. giancL. particularly a tnc. ; bills, touching our foreign, relations, that had been rf introduced by Mr. Macon at the session ; of form the theatre int6 a field of battle lor boxers bruizers, for strumpets and p'ekpocke's Among a pecpie,; that so much talk of respect Tor property'; the property of individuals is openly invaded''and obliged to submhV to the ruinous maximum of dic tatorial factions. Ought it not to be apprehended, that prosperous anarchy wifl trot slop at the door or in the pit of a theatre but sooner or. later force an entrance into banits, omces cc magazinesj.there also to-aflix its maximum to" inflict its' requisi tipns jyt, ,v :, ;.. ., ; , ; i t Sincei'the wisdom of his iinperie-l- snd royal rightiness ias instructed tile con.tine.nt vtithregard to its -.true' interest, continental warriors,, are. no longer, tributary to insular pedlars ; and English man, Who in exchange1-for their sold superfluities; received from foreigners their necessaries alrnoM for nothing, , began to dread a famine. y. To lessen thejeonsumptionof grain, government , locked .for somecsubstiiuteyfbr ". the dtstilleriCJJr.WMe houses', weighing down with perishable colonial produces, Sugar naturally presented itself and was proposed. ; The - 'owners ---of latds "took instant al- arm they .formeuyeb oppositien.. and. during mdnthsj tlje grain ;and , sughr : factions," wi ab theatrical ami reforming factions, with the naval l. the military factions j with the jiebbin;' the city fe( the parliamentary factions, cbntinurd to engage the whole, attention of a triily factloiis, divided ami "iiT centtousi people. This is j$ot the only instance, 1 tes tionswas not at all offensive, yet there were indi cations 01 embarrassment ana awkartiness.. tnat . excited in rny.rmnd adoubir as to his iced objects V Under the influence of jhis susptcion, I rising, from t my cai j, wuu a uecorum cue to a rrcsmeni ut ,- UJC 'HUCU pLOlCi, UiatlUMIjr illiOIIIiCU 411111, lliUU . -, ' owing to our diiTertnt views of ihany stibietts, X' f;' had some time since formed a dertyination to(V withdraw from his administration ; that I had aci W l tbaily commiwucated' to'soahe pf ihyt friefids thiV :'j determination ;'andto" accomplish 1 mypurpcsc'Iy J had been only trailing foan occasion wherein itfe,' cbulaUc' effected---vitliotit 'Td.arigMng'; -tc$ icting agitations among out respective fnend.4 j and, nt ; reuring ;i"i'om hisi room, T. remarked to him, that ' I vvpald dtdyopsider, whether the oftV of a 'mt'sV: sio'n td Russia would, 'afford';' such anc'npVriurtity Jl ;' . afford, such an opporluf.ity Vith -inexpressible 4stothhnient,'- hos.eysrj;-;l M afewdays lefftnedyihat tei4ii3yi4i certain membe H of Con e tess-ha-.f : bteit. e a W edi ' - - in returning toN theirrespt ctlye liAmes, la. siatef' -V that thiTldenlic'al offer would be niact-to' .mwjUisN j a'.view cf putting Mr'i 'Monipe in i the -Dej-aitmti-V,. of. Stajte yThis 1 intelfigeftp 'I, of cmirserk,ny tioned with a becorfiihg hjdigh4;ah 'tbMr. ,Mdi ,,"v son u boh his anDlicatlon afte r wardsime for the" result ol'.rny'-reflections on the1 proppsd'-it:isiony1 Hp irnmeditclyfVcutwuhie ited that" he haq net ti any manner wiwttfet i -' . . -. ' " ' '. ' .' " v - '1 y'';:AAAA-A :A;.,:,. ; 'X;, A - i J-; I ; s"
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