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RALEIGH, N. Cui PUBtlSHEd (weeklt) BYcLtfCAS AID AiH. BOYLAN. fag doUams k .fc4.l Friday, October .25, isi Vol. 16. v;; Political. (; '?'v ' KKOMrTHB ALBAWr OAZKTTE. icrfo8 of'.A:MHvt Jnpricem on the late pub- " IkationspM- C. (SbubT. 'V v . ffhe boldebt 'assertcrs of liberty are often mis. fctn for the tools of faction, or if they happen to ifflyen of sanguine temper and ardent imagination, U tre ft equehily numbered among its dupes. jhe jabK of Mr. Genet, and the important posts it has occupied, one would suppose ought to have Jprmiples fie profeesv front tht of political tickednessVBui strange. a it may seem, lie has heen suspected offcotk. vfc ;,4 -S:;. u true IhaLAA honest heart is the only sean- dard of political Tectltfode, I. Ho deplor&bJefthenr must be his condition, who ha been lined, up by public distraction, ima puuup (uoce,.iar ucywiu JjjS SCOpc ouu niicucn, vtiuiuui st w nui"- tentions to assist him ! . The victim of his own Mkni, his zeal will outrun its object, ana nis jcliemes, howevefark, will he uauied oeiore oe aware that thev are understood. The unceas- . ' In answer to an address from the republican k4'A$ length came tke jrpV'iious Coniet cj" 680; , ot Wew rx, ae says ; k tne cause, oti.rnicn imstcnuiju nnii ptipiik.H.uxinv n-aiu. islheiiaust: of ail mankind:and nti hatloii I the stin, arose from hiro airain with equa. Vt- 0c.ttyj terms, with the present age and with the futwt 2 afh samp Instant' nf time. ' ' That while the lau. Citi2ens roi i'q i7f Wnnmincf nn KU Srnw. it has snrunp UD. France as it were, round bis tomb. Dut here he cputd is more deeply interested than the United States not -rest The interval of concealment is past,! in its -success.-Whatever fate; await 'her; the with the motives that induced it.... And now.j United States are ultimately to share"--..God for Washincton is ded. and Mr. Jefferson has retired, I bid ! .-Mr. Genet will not deny that tic has used k m fnrth acrAm. tn Mcnress new anxieties these expressions -.He cannot. for our welfare and fiesh fears for our safety. Ac- 3. See president Washington's message.to Con. cept, most excellent sir, our renewed thanks. We fear, however, that suspicion is still awake... .Fuir pretences so often gild the blackest purposes.... Our people tremble when you flatter. I he clouds shine brighest at the approach of night. . 7'Very..many of our ""cjUitensV mosC'"r espectable and discerpirig men to0i,till believe that Mft. Ge net has riiSreal affecao4io)iir country, notie for foverament, principles or manoera, that he would be clad to chain ouraesunies to ine imperial car pf France, and hopeset to share, with the rest of h.s family, the. blood stained bounties ot a trench master.i. MBchas it is to be regretted, it cannot, cannot be denied, that some of these opinions have been sanctioned by his own declarations.- Declara tions of a recent date, made without reserve and without a blush to twr of our native citizens, gen gress, and the papers relative to French aflairs, December 5 1793, p. 67, 68. ' ', 4. We may learn llie value of this gentleman's priIC8lun, CAdnuuuig ilia ".iw-ia jwui w vu and the illustrious Newion demonstrated v-o- oolf ' what KcDler had fot'nd i'if necessarily ob'iti 'lu - the blanetary sy6tein, but jlW that Comets obsevd the same; law, moving in ery long ellipses 'roinf:;. ine sun anq uescnoing equal areas in equaiume.; Tbe revolutlonsof only IWa Comets (Or the 1 number of years necessary for perfrminB a jour-' ney round the son) sire known with, any certainty : V" Theone isthat which aaredln ihe years 156 j ; 1521, 16U7, joiia, ana 175V, and is ascertained to crasr December 5, 1793. written at the veryifnoye round theiun inf6 Jearsf it.Van thertford time netwai-Thos cenounceo Ng regara vi w y,,n.s Vl'r "Itoen of distinguished rank and probity, wh-e ' U 1 . ? . nr-. i i de merits their warmest gratitude Many of r .. j c. i :.u J l.. before the public. (6) . Wih such Mr. JcFHvk; In his'. letter berr93, to tbe. lattcr-gentl Jefl"er.von, that x always faith ml liberty, he had fendered to the Americans in the different employments he had hrfd, allthe services wliich depended ort him," and again, " that next to the French, the American, fie'Ople were dearest to his heart 1" - -. 4 See Marshall's Life of Washington p. 409 444, Vol. 5. - 6. General Henry K. Van Renssellaer and the Adjutant General Solomon Van Hensselaer, to whom Mr. Genet declared that his family in Eu r . ... . e- 1- . i ...'..l j.i. .ll lesumonv is hare witnessed nisconauci, . iienca w,w. e.-u . clir14h(,L Wrther w;th his ore. I rone had been well provided for bv the late kintr fm tht first mnmpnt hp tl , l -" T . I . . . . V. to hts protessions, rorn ine aw ous -.L in view, there appears still to be a pre-1 of Holland, Louis bonaparte-.-and that the em LTrllLT trXirl IT;. ' vailin opinion that Mr. G. has been amongst us peror Honaparte had already suited allhis tne ' L. .V:i from the first, as Mcibiades among the Spartans, mies la Lurope excepting England fcves' his native country" (1) notwithstanding he ' al f xlle home, in an adopted country, wth ScW declared" to. the ciiizens of New York , f treacherous attachment to hts na' i ve soil, puuuv-y .utw.. - , n t without Aw " reach of genius' or fascinating man. that " the came of France is the cause ol all . . . ? ... ini wit vau w 0t. ,, ners. But it is tune to speak out. Mr. Genet s aanRino, wKi.espec letters to Mr, Pickering, relative to the af. ,than it hitherto had done, they would next be at ftOs ifaelinTfearid dun a i Kr. it i . ..Z.: In theery' days of pur fairies, ' a4 hairjr stari (Sydus Criojtam) was seen for t das iri trial part -) of the heavens whicli js Under the Sejjtehtriones ; it arose about the' 1 1th hour pf th day, and wa -clearly to lie seen all oyer' ; the. world.4The) pet , , riod of ibis CdraeE is therefore ascertained. to bd about 575 years old.' Its appearance wili bein.he year 2255. V " . ' ' "H 'i r , The number ofConiets belohffinff to our . sy ! ltem is unknown, but it haVbeen aSsertalnedthat - more than 450 have been seen, but , ..the number we still believe and we call heaven and. earth to wit ness, that his steady and preserving zeal for our honor and independence against the dominions of Great Britain, if it he not patriotism, has at least the appearance of it. But uufortunately for Mr. Genet, ambition too often walks abroad, under the mask of Dublic spirit, aid in spite of himself, we fear he will be suspected of, dishonest artiRcea. We are .a jealous peopleWe love our country ; ftr glory is dear to us We revere the patriots fho brought into life and action our free govern, ment, and sit with' proud exultation under the shado w of their fame With such feelings, when We listen to Mr Genet's professions, we regret that,Washington distrusted them, and that Mr. Jefferson has endeavored to contract the sphere of his influence, and to place obstacles in his way to public confidence, which are almost insurmounta ble Is aoy man at .a loss to wlut, we allude i General Wlishirgtin, in bis message to congress, IK; $, 1793. declared, " that it was with extreme concern he had to inform them that the proceed ing of the person whom the French nation had unfortunately appointed their minister here (allud- Mjj to Mr. (Genet) had breathed nothing of the fnenxllv spirit of tbe nation sending him ; that their teiidency, orulhe contrary, had been to involve us in war abroad, and discord and anarchy at home." Neither can it be forg-otten that Mr. Jefferson in bit letter of August 16th, 1793. to Mr. G. Mor ris, then our minister in France, had the temeri ty to" call Mr. Genet " an aijent of the French government whose designs were mysterious ;' and to declare, w that his continuance here was incon distant' with order and peace-' " That for he ex pressions of attachment with tair of the - president and the Little Belt, would , tucked andubjugatwL by him. --This, he said to have passed by, among the scraps ol the press, but for the sauction-of his name. Uven with that, they are only important as new proofs of the im pudence with which foreigners intermeddle in our public concerns.- However important the subject. the present is an improper time lor newspaim-dis mies in Europe excepting r,ngianu ana Kussia,! i acniw "ir'"'''-; and that he would unquestionably conquer those w us to ascertain their idewtty an .aMirap--powers also..-and that afterwards, in case the pearance, is only about -$9''. The orBlU. pf most of v government of the United States did not conduct these are ipclined to the plane vf the ecliptic; irt, towards him with more friendship and civility i large angles, and - irt tBeir perihelion tbey corna mucn nearer tne sun man tne earui ws. , iicu motions in the heavens are also different- frbwl y inose oxine maneis. w nen a vouiciu;nvc " in a those gentlemen, no longer ago than in 1807, and their atiidavit js published. Can he shew it to be fale i ' 7. In Mr. Genet's first letter to Mr. Pickering, he tells of his "diplomatic missions at different courts of Eiiroiie ;" we tindSe same story in ltis ouv own citizens. It was letter to Mr. Jefferson,! 8ih September, 1793, and The case, over and again in his letter to that gentleman ol Two ships of w;:r of t .vxr allied the 15th November, the same year always the e oi me pianeis. vv nen. a vomei a; uvea v-;r -r.v" s certain distance of t,he sun, it emirs a prodii;4j cious fume or vapour called its tail- These tail seem largest and rhost ;splendtd inrmeditiy "af ter they teturn frem the sbn, becauee beirg hbt, test, they emit the greatest quantity of yappursi and are always opposite those parts winch the bo? dy of the comet leaves in its descent, which is a. greeabje to the nature of smoke, and vappur They alsoappear broader on their upper p.it tliart ,; near the head of the Comet ; like all vapours the higher they rise the more'they dilate themselves. The cclebrated:i:c6met of 1630 came, so near , the sun, that it was not a, sixth part of "thei, sun's diameter distant from its surface : and there '. i With Whlr.h Mr flnf.t fas 'welcomed on his arrival, and for o.,r lnn r!l,ie PUJ1C service,, and vviio js rewards us by endeavoring to excite diocord and distrust between Our own citizens and those lbom they have entrusted with their govern jnent." -Nay ! In that memorable letter (which Kin every body's hands) Mr. Jefferson goes fur ther...Ile fixes acharjre upon Mr Genet which mis every eond citizens with horror, and makes cussion even amon not so, when Mr. Pickering wrote'. then, was this powers meet and tight, and on one side there are herald ol his own fame, he tells Mr. Jefferson, that several killed. Phis is a state of open war, he was busy fn translating the American political Whichever commenced the attack, if it was au- papers of 76 or '77, in the bureau of foreign affairs thorized by either government, under any cir-; in France, under the direction of his father, at cumstancts, it amounts ioa declaration of war. the age of 12 years 1,' Wonderful boy.-En ego I r 1. ........ i ' . I J . !. .f , A i.....iiir I A I". tk'ie qn.l ti. Cnrra hn rom. tr , Kl e c l- .... ., ... ... .--.-i i. :.. k:- u ,k i ....J (are its 'heat must then be two thousand time liter wjiu pinvu&eu ine coniesi ougiu iu ue intu luuiuij, iic sap in im nc.i itnti, mai nt, ' i j L a a t iV n t-1 and disgraced. The honor of both nations de- seven years at tbe head of the bureau one .yeari.lotter...than.:red hot iron. And trom tnenceit: nunds it. So that in every point of view, the af- at London.. . two at Vienna, .-one at Berlin-and j ts course from the sun to the dis ance pi ele. fair is deeply interesting to America, involving five in Kussia." Here then he has honors of six- ven u.ousanu millions o m. nothing less, than the peace of the nation, or the .teen years growth in a period a little short of four, character of the first officer in oup navy. Under teen years Sent all over Lurrpe between the these circumstances, we are told in the govern- j year '77 and the year '92, aiid yet c nly 12 years ment paper that the president approved of the con-! old in the year 77-.- Fortuna improba sinoncm duct of commodore Rodgers, and has resolved to j vanum mendacem que fihxit.' Mr Jefferson did smother all eji?jkiiry. Thus adopting at once, the ' not believe a wordbl it. -When a man is counting act of the CLnnmodore as an act of the government. !his honors be should never be guilty of anachro The consequence was inevitable.If it should af- nisms.- -Judge Marshall, in Ins Life of Washing terward.s appear to the British government, that ton, has ciopt them all and binding them up in the tommoo'dre .was the aggressor, no alternative , one knot, he represents him as a mere sub-clerk would be left. The two nations would be at war, in one of the inferior bureaus bt France, and after without the formality of public declaration. To : wards as only charjre d'affairs or chief clerk to a avert this, to provoke enquiry, to rouse Mr Madi- minister in liusbia And Mr. Genet himself con- son lrom his tatal lethargy, a native American, ol lesses to--Mr. Jeilerson that he was expelled Irom exalted worth, jvho had spent his whole life in , Russia -.-driven out by order of the Empress..- - See Marshall's Life of Washington, 5 vol. p. 409, and President Washington's Message December 5, 1793, p. 70, 72, 91. 8. See iMr. tnet'-s first letter, where he talks of defending our territories pe r et armis. i -4. one of those rai$ Abearance Under his cross usumations anrl out nien who tire fitted by nature to guide and bre rages of he laws and authority of our country, he! serve a nat'jn' sounds the alarm c points out the dangers that surround us. At length his warning voice reaches the government, and a court of en quiry is ordered. Mr. Pickering's object then beinp; answered he drops the subiect and retires. COMETS. is now a matter sttbjudice, and every mouth is T The JoUonvhig observations rejecting Comets are .till t.' I. I . I i .. I. I . . .r . r - !. - i. It I. - J r extri)Civajrom a i,QnuQn Magazine jwu usucu m still. Even the watchdosrs of faction have ceased o - - - - to bark. 'and the whole nation stands in silent,' anx- Mm shudder to the heart.. He says "ihat if our j1011 ptnse, waiting the result. Citizens have not already been shedding each o-l At thls moment a Ftenchnian, ttained up in the-s blood, it is not owin? to the moderation of thc very bosom of pespotism," who had been de- Mr. Genet r (3) - ' . "y ine puouc tunciionanes oi trce niner- Thus, is Mr. Genet represented by two of our topst distincuished citizens : centlemen of oddo ite parties, as the ma t demonof discord, turbulent tnd ferociou'? roaming thrphgh our country, scat tering flames and Fury, breathing out destruction gainst the established order of things, unsettling ?nd unhinging society;' and at last Stirling upour ftlfovy citizens to wage an impious war against the J?ftrnment of their own choice, and to butcher "'tf brethren. Sufi sentiments fro'iri w.h men. could not fail to shake public "Confidence in his pro litles offices 'ncl honors Titles that were never fesvons, anient am! ..fftctionate as they were. (&) his offices that he has not held. -and honors that 11a uw.wi nuic i j-i.lic auiiiiiiuucs lu 1113 UlU, ail tne lights 01 universal science--.-He presses luw lie view, how he ay buried in the heart bl our country. fora series of;earr and )elthe' people MUiifi for themselves. ' yrrrL ';vSaJorignand so completely was" lie lost from ill eye, that- tvwjuuonj spent a paragraph -up- his name, and consecrated his menioryfor his future admiration. ' The world well knows how .''hrdljLiihas pivldibtt tribu'e. . Itijmist gratify -Mc.'Gnu.eiV ruling passion, to wle to ant ifiii!tf. ' srnti'tVi'K ot nnstpritv nnrt can castles upon his future fame. Little men frequently become errest by Connexion with creat eS.-i-t The. slavi. w-Jin wnnlH have nfii-ined Alv i . 7 i wer, and the as?3ii,vof Henry the Great, have down Tt'o uv aioiiir with their masters. E OMr. Genet's uame elands on the same pacre with ;Wjislu!q;on's, NotwiUiatapdliigJhe histo rn hasrepres'uated1 him as a fiery demagogue lioiit cunning aadres, stfuglingto 'destroy U'&o tcvn -ipfUhvrt y,"f5) it must still afford him .coosViiixn that? he ia Able to liye, oft any', MveniUerj 1 807 A Comet, vulgarly called a blazing star, ort ac count of its appearance, Js a very extraordinary sight; for though the number of them be great; yet on account of the long period of their reo- nations as zdisttsrber of-heace and order i In t ion. thev but verv seldom nnnear.' They are a man who can neither speak nor write our lan-4 supposed to consist of a Very compact and durable . - - . . . i ... ent 14 times further thah the orbit of Satun. At their first appearance i comets are computed to be as n-.ar to us as Jupiter, and thertfore con sidered to be less than that planet : the present one of 18071 (which has passed its perihelion) is sup posed to be eight times larger than our globe, acl to move with the1 amazing velocity of sixteen thoix; sand milts a minute. The conjecture? .respecting ctimetsare varioUs. The ancients believed tiu-y " were harbingers of divine vengeance thi Ho. mer . A fatal sigh to armies on the plain) Or trembling sailors on the wat ry main," Some of tlie ; moderns, particularly sir Isaac Newton, are of opinion, ihat they are ordained, by Providence, to supply the sun at stated periods, with matter peculiar to its nature ; and to make itp' the deficiencvhich must arise from the contin ual emission of the particles of light. These however, are mere hypotheses, lhe same aiacj may be said of every thing that can be advahced concerning their being inhabited worlds, for if ani mals can exist there, they must be creatures, very far different from any of which we have the least conception. , Some wbaftiejwjujgb in visionary ideas, think they are appoljhted as the place of torment for the damned that each Co met is, properly and literally speaking, a hell, from the intolerable and and inconceivable-heat and cold which alternately takes place in these' bodies I impatience, and the fury ."bfjl gladiaiorrsteps forth into the midst of the amphitheatre and throws down the gauntlet- attempts to pre-occupy the public opinion and prejudice the case -To support his pretensions, he makes pompous -display of his gyage' correctly, and who once 'before, within our ! substance, capable of the gieatest degree of heat memory, naa oroKe into our public counsels and and cold without being subject to uissolution ; and, polluted the -tabernacle This man, with restless j like the planets, shining only by reflect ion. Liy IliC 'HlltlCms, irtic luiwiuiii.u vappurior l'aeteors ;' and of this opinion was Aris. toilt, the celebrated Gi-eek Pnilosophe r- The je phenomena were therefore treatcdlwUJneglct, until the time of S6icca, who oloserved-two very remarkviule ones, which he scrupled not to place amongst the ctlcslial bodies, though owns their motions to be governed, by laws not then known-' Doctor 1 1 alley, declares, that notwithstanding all his researches into the histories of Comets, he found njithing satisfactory ; until a Constantinb politan historian and astronomer, in the year Ai D. 1 337, pretty accurately described tne pains of a", Comet amongst, the nxeckstars'. Comet which appeared, was in the and was observed bv Ileeiamantanus ; swiftest of any that have hitherto appeared, f.nd the nearest to the earth. This Comet so dreaded on account; of the magnitude of its body and tail, moved at tlie rate of forty degrees of a great circle( in the heavens, in the space of one dayLgahd.was the first of which we have any proper4bservations. In the year 1577, a remarkable Goriiet visited.this earthed the study of which Ty cho Brahe assidu ously applied himself; ' This .great astronomer, after many fatthfut observationsi found that it had no perceptible paralax ; and consequently j:oul3 his service the civil, the maritimeaiid the munici pal laws of ail, nations -He comes. with' treaties', proclamations, manifestoes and huge folios of an cient and modern "history - news from all nations lumbering at his back"-.--,arid. deficient, in even the ' rudiments . of scholastic 'knowledge, he who car.not2wield a Latin prefiosition (8) would fain pass a Grotius or an Azuni. f r. - : - Thu much for Mr-, Genet's claim to attention I lis diplomatic learning and reasoning shall re ceive noJiice.in due season- : ' . - ';" -. koTES. '.-; -;7 . . li In a letter Jo Mr. Jefferson, Mr. Genet luts these expressions:" It is a pure and warm blood runs with rapidity in my veins-'-il love passionate ly my country. ; When I find ati injustice done to my fellow citi 2 ens.- tbat their .Interests are not - v' . . . . espoused with the tea which, they merit, no consideration-would hinder, either tny pen or my tongue from tracing -from expressing my pain." vylMf Geoft dr nctt dery thU JteUcft It is supposed by some, that Comets are tbe means appointed by tlie Almighty for the destruc tion of this world, and all the planitary system, by v involving the globe of the planets in their uimos phefe ofwater, in their return from the cold .re gions. Amongst those wjio have written opoii ihe subject arc, Mr. ' Whist.on, and the lpined Dr. Hallej-. The former is of opunon, tba'tliii k world will be 'dcstrcyetl fey. .a-'gcpcrjil . cor-Qgr-u-.,,--lion, occasioned ; by our .globe licg iuvoly td m tail of some comet,' o&cr.'it ls been prodigiously . : .heated it its pasifrge frcm tlie fi'.m. N..jj- The lattei . declares, tljof.-it i possibicrfor a : coniet to' produce some cTwnge in ibq sitnatior-: ' and species of the car-hs -bit,' and in" the lengli) --y of the veaiv and says, u Hut-; may net the grea. 1 .The next! God avert a.shock or contact ct such great uouiej, v y year 1473, it was the n6t be an aerial vapour. Tycho was succeeded by the sagacioug'Kepier, who discovered tlie true . . ... r.iT-: U ' . . - ; ' V pnysicai system, oi uiia tvuuu, . moving with siich force (which however is mam -. featly by no means impossible) lest this P' - i beautiful order of things be ectirely destroyed, ajjiIC reduced into its oufierit 'a.-- Indeed'- it' ha;; been shewn that the Comet of 1680J ,NoveiuV?f 1 1th, at onejo.tlock in the afternoon, was so sma.t a distance from the earth'i oriitU-lhat had the earth ; been nearer that patt tf its orbit, God orly .know, what the cbnsequente migbr have been !If then a Comet Seould en'counter the earth tit its returri from the sun, it would undoubtedly ;cotisume Uiei earth; and all its inhabiunU; as ,fd,many moth v : Tt m o-ht convert thematteroiine pre&euv intda different kind of stibstance and fendmtvau i habitation fit for beings ot a quite cjuc ui .from m9t ': 'i " ' - .v '
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