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f' -: DOLLARS rSR TBJJl,' RALEIGH, N. C-PO BUSHED (wkekl) BY LUCAS AND H. BOYLAtf. o 552 5 f y ts JtrjittMi Vol.17. J FRIDAY, APRtL tO, 1812. I- No. 836. Military ! From the Baltimore federal GazsVe A SKETCH OF THE MILITARY SYSTEM OF FilANCE, Sc. ; " Our first parents were told , as soon as they had fallen and to prevent the effects of despon dency, no doubt, that their seed should bruise the serpent's head i" but this does not seem to be the policy of some political Writers, and though they paint the sway of Napoleon Bonaparte in the . m6st horrid colors yet tell us these colors are dur " abUfJ and will last for ages. It is pleasing to see u'ch opinions combated by writer of sughulenti as the author of w 4 sketch of the Miitary 'jttemt of France f Sic. and especially tor See tH5t fatal prophecy combated by the arms-of those who au. ' vance them. i . , Mr. Walsh in his Views," had shewn that France was exhaustedjf men and money, though he still holds her up as a monster of endless du. ration, and, these passages our author has judici ously quoted.' The eoquiier 'U'jy wonder by what means France is tdmamtain her .exorbitant pow er, when men and money fail.1 In Mr. Walsh's lleview of the work before me, it is said, she can replenish them in conquered countries ? Can they have maintained a war of 5, 10 or 15 years, without its usual consequences, and will not France h&ve accomplished their ruin, by the time her plun dering legions have overrun their territories i The Reviewers have misled our respectable wri te .-into a chronological error of some importance, with respect to the subject of the first part of his Sketch that is' to say, the Conscription ; which .the former represent as first organized by the di rectory, in 1798, whereas that revolutionary ma. chine was in fdll operation in Robespierre's reign, five years before, when all unmarried Frenchmen,, between the ages of 19 and. 25, were forced into the service. Neither the conscription, nor the mint of assigrnusy or any other means, (an4.it is ,'difficuhUo conceive any not possessed by him) could -save this tyrannical minister, or his revolu tionary government. : Su llenly, and unexpected. ly they both fell as if lightning from Heaven had descended purposely 10 blast them. It appears that amongst the number of instances Adduced by the writer ofthe Sketch, to show the pproaching dowtifal of Bonaparte and his power j the history of CraWWeiV:4id;3miiaonweakh )f Eseland, shoufd have bid a place. It cannot Li! tU.t .I... t wtiar V art Cromwell, had acquirr d as much ascendency o ver the civilized world,' as that possessed by the the French now. , France' then, and at all times, for many centu ries past, the greatest power on th,; con.inent. of Europe, was awefl by Cromwell 'into acts ol base ness, .which have only been equalled by petty states, or others subdued by the French arms. After ten years reign, Cromwell became afraid of his meanest domestics, and no country he had in sulted, f-ared to rtturn the treatment on his im mediate successor, Richard, or even upon Chsries the 2.1 when res'ored to t h e gove r n ment. . . Since then too, there ha been a revolution in Persia which affords a lesson for the French u super. Nadir Shah, alia-. Kouli Ion, overturned thit eiBpirfSbout the tni idle of the last centu ry, and seated hiinseuon the throne ; but his vex ations and cruelties procured him to be assassi nate.) KtT llm' Vlrir nfRrtr Wllf hatt r.Onf rtholt! ! to his elevation, and in his own' lent; so that . I. ' V ..... . .. there wai an end to his Dyhasij in a very few years. ' ' Our author sejems"to hae nearly confined him self to the enumeration of' the physical causes which are like. to produce the overthrow of French power ; but there are moral as well as physical causes for the rise or fall of Empires. - A liberal and honorable line of conduct might .haverender d the FVench usurper a long time se cure but that principle of honor, which the learn ed arid ingenious Montciquieu states as the basis . of French power, his been repeatedly and e gregioudy violated. Perhaps the French nation would have overlooked the attack on the friendly Ottomans, during 'he time that Bonaparte acted a subaltern, and all other treacheries uatil the affair of Spaia. . It is. evident, that from the time he betrayed the two kings at Biyonne, he has lost much oi' the p pnlarity which Jie had at home, and that his foreign enterprises have been attend ed with diffictijties- or discomfitures, unknown in his previous career - - ' In pur republican government, we understand there afe such thj,n:' tt first irinciilest arid that. .JEbfithe preservation of these, governments, it is necessary to recur to them - Withbut inquiring here what these are it is evident, that oneof the first DrinciWe? of a monarchy, whether limited or absolute, is the -heridiiavy right of the sovereign prince Whatever may be the acquired power or DoDuLuity of Bonaparte, this heredirary right u ill ever he wan'.im : a-tecurience to tt-mut-44ii "overthrow. ' It "will not be fovind that monarehy) notelective, or in a state of barbarism, has changed hthjnnsty causes have occurred to mate the subjects, pre fer one prince or. princess of a family, to another of the same family ; bflt this, on many accounts, cao'nbt be termed -another dyntuttfi There mu&t be sometliing more to entitle the Jcing oTTomer Bonaparte sxhild is-calledrro the loyalty of, the French than his birth ; and it r IrtMnt be concetved thatlTBrave, people yvTOa criGce- every, thing to uphold an infant, whose claims to their services are little or nct greater Ihita thoie yf any other chiUi in he empire, , In fact, every royalist or imperialist in;Frarice, who does not owe his Immediate protection to Bo- napurte, must be persuaded, that lasting peace can umjr uc prw;uru, w ine cuumry uy . i ersiuruig I government toithe family of: their .ancient kings rkn4 a DaMU Pitanikmnn "m(a l svl 1 m nw .cAtA V 2 m. and every Frenchman, who holds an estate by in heritan'ce, or wishes to convey an estate to his own descendants, must think himself interested in maintaining this first fuincifile of the monarchy. ' As to the acquisition. of territory and population, Holland, Savoy or Switzerland existed merely by courtesy, if I may use the term they had not in rinsic power sufficient lo maintain their inde. pendence ; and, as they had not th& requisite to cfuribtMy, their subjugation, or annexation to brance, au add none to hers ; especially if we consider the difficulties attending a union of peo ple speaking' different languages, professing dif ferent religions, and divided by great mountains, or other geographical and physical obstructions. I here is a degree of cruelty in speaking of the eff. rts of the Spanish Patriots, in the manner Mr. W;dsh does , and it is to be wished, that his Re v''ev may never reach either the northtrn or sou thern extremities of -the European continent, where the power of France is still resisted. That power would never have arrived to its present ex tent, if many of the kingdoms or states of Europe had not been persuaded that resistance was vain, it wa, quite futile to make any sacrifices 'U to delay inevitable fate. Is there no change of cir - r.ync, rn .i ',. e1 .u enmstances, no exertion that can save the conti nent ? Oh, if our young author could but qualify his prophe les with an u 1 make themselves better acquainted wiih the his. TO THE PEOPLE & NORTH-CAROLINA . torjr of the rise and origin of .the French revolu- FeUow-Citizetm, tion, fromwliich the evils of the Eurbpean world j Asyou in general apbeat to be sensible of theun have flowed. The fame of Lally, Tollendal or, warrantable assumption of power exercised by the Mallet lu Pan d ies not appear to be known to" last General Asstmblf, in takinirawav the election them ; and a debt f gratitude is due to that brave and honorable minority of the national assembly due to their memory from the present generation, as well as to that of Palafox and Romana, which it, is time should be paid, and which certainly will not be.overlooked by futtire ttistorians. ' , If a Conti or a Casales ajuld have been heard and obeyed in 1782, th world would not have to antffttignoors. . -rr , iV . - French power( are such as niiuht naturally be ac quired in the literatf tirclea of Helen M. Williams, and others in Paris, of whom be has gveti us the ot rrance, many oi wuom seatea with their blood many weighty arguments which might be brought the sincerity of their opposition to this revolution forward ogaihst that jneasure, to convince your un in ks first stages a debt of gratitude, I say, ii detstandincs of its itfiiwopriety. I have seen the euioigy, nor o i xnow mat cnnereni opinions wouia caption ot the law passed at the last session, be formed from a correspondence with t he friends j The, first thing necessary to be done by the peo of that lady and of reform in England. He has pie, m my opinion, is to take care that none be, ch6 shut up ihevolurrfe of experience andliistory, and - sen at the next electidn butuch men as may ue how should it occur to him that, turning the tables their influence to repeal the law. I worth! not wish on the French, oth r Henrys or Edwards may to be understood a by any means advising, that all penetrate into the heart of France? The gloomy thoe who voted for the bill be left out ; but such prophecies of Mr. Burke,. whom our young Ame- of thenv only as may-still continue in the opinion rican seems to have imitated were proper in 1795, of iu.exntdiencv and nroDrietv. and would thrrp. before the arms of France had extended beyond ner. territory, mums quite tne revers-Ttow, wnen these arms have, reached the extremities of the continent. In his struggle with our author, he seems to admit with reluctance, that French coii- quest may. be confined to the continent of Eurqpe, rv tivritv Irotra mr,t.A vf ancca rail, i'iu' IHVULJ fB13 IIIUI lit 9UbliWUVJ, t ( Wll JU V 1 1 u xase to the government of tins Country, and sup- posing Er.gland too is subdued, points out 'our fate, and a dismal one it' is, cfcourss. And this is all given to encourage resistance! I have said struggle with our author, for I think it is eviilenc he labors to maintain the opinion be fore advanced by him and I believe that many who read the arguments with due reflection, may be Convinced by him, u they are not by our author. that the power of France has seen its zenith, and i ...v iui ouniv. nniv. j., I. una uini u iM. uvvinib, : except perhaps in these United States, whom he nas laoorea to eniignieii in vain, or rather, wnose government has hadlts organs of vision darkened by him, instead of its mind enlightened,, on this subject. ' When the success ofthe French arms, are i" suf ficiently accounted for by the, success of French intrigues,' I cannot admit, with our respectable author, that the forgjpr is materially due to the snperiority of military talentTTn the revolutionary officers. The Arch Duke Charles, Suwarrow, Sidney Smith, Abercrombie and Wellington, have each ol them proved their talents equal. I do not believe the modi m marshals surpass' Douille or ltochambeau, by whom they were taught, much less, that they are the equals pf Conde, Tutenne, Marlborough, or Frederick the 2d. ' - Neither does our author seem to be awire of the advantages Bonaparte derives from represen tations, that the times are big with wonders, not etpialled in former history It is bereaving us of ouf reason to-make us inHhe hands of the-tyrantd like clay in, the hands-of the potter, and this is unfortunately, and I am sure unintentionally, ex; actly what the editors of the.,Edyiburgh and Ame ric ;n Reviews, "both are doing I hope that Mr. Walsh, at least, is by this time convinced-that his views have, not induced-our government, " lo be incessantly on the watch against the, wiles and intrigues of France." It has j)nly been taught, byhi m" I fearToorisider ihafldol w&iVwhtch it might have painted tottself blackj foF thouRh gloomy, he insists upon it the colours are durable, as said belore. Universal conquest spoken of in the sketch, arejvords-which convey oo dcfuiite idea to cor6mgn minds ? if :he yritercV-Tileor to aaswy;rty r?lrm beTayWebstej, rjaii-cariicr betwtenHrg sented the views of the French, to he litriitted by dividual plunder, it would have drawn ds near truth, And after reading Burke or Ames, I can,' I'cunci auu-w-nuc tvi me uiuiiuu uiai utc auuucu ; . and Successive increase of the power of France, 1 atti tvtn t?la lufr C it an kB -Yq4rkrl Q Vis ) r within the hut few. rears,, has amazed attd con founded the wisest and best informed politicians, or after Montesquieu or Mallet, that the world neVer taw the like before, so that its lessons of experience should be set aside. I hope, pn the contrary, the people, and especi ally the people of this country will reflect serious ly on the . useful references td history which they will fiii tbe ' Vetch, and which they cannot read without Iwrtg impressed with sentiments of eon , tempt as. Delias horror," for the vices and crimes of modern France. " ' The origin of standing armies if handaoihly delineated, and the comparison between the Ho man and French conscription, worthy the highest consideration, amontt political men of all parlies J ANTI JACOBIN. "Political ! FOR THE M(NERVA. Messrs. F.ditors, , AT the last Session of the Legislature, in Im lflti..tu .i.nn tllA Kill i.l.finj .1 . I r V Bwer rfelecting electors to Vote 1 r Yff ni pWde0ti? thrC ?n,1 SUleS; 1 1 told the House of Commons that I should appeal to the people In order to comply with what 1 in- tended, and wish, I ask fht favor of you to give the of electors from iheDooleandveslinErthe orivilefe j in the legislature, I shdl not go into a detail of the presentment of the Grand Jury ot Lincoln county, whichl think breath the very spiritof those repub lican principles, upon which the public ee should be constanily fiiJ as tire polar star of liberty, and which mav Iwnriilv ureerve it nure for ae-es vet to i come. ,1 have also heard from manv other coun- JtYCTC P?' ta-exist a tjenentl dtssaUsfactkin at plan of preventing the evils threatened by the a .fore vote for a perseverance in ?he measure. Many good men Iwve given, and Tnay doubtless again i give, a vote, which afterwards they wt'uld Jcsire land be glad to reverse. The second thing I beir leave to advise, is that, I ail the counties follow the example cf that of Lin coin. :.? The third and last thing in order to brirti the business properly to an issue, would be for the in lizens of eisch county, or aS many of them as are of the opinion.' that our liberties were infringed by the actof last session, to petition his Excellency the Croveinwrtocall the Generat Assembly cue month sooner than the regular period of meeting -i hit is to say, on the third Monday in October. Bv this meeas the State could be laid off into distiicts the people choose electors in time, as formerly, Sc i ii c ixk.1. u3nj nicu uusuiess oi tile-annual scssiorj b. transacted without any other than the usuafex pence. An active arid spirited Iite cf conduct carried on with prudtnee add firmness, will not only let our, aristocratical brethrefisee, that the citizens of"T. Carolina haye paid .too dearK arid iiet too great a value upjn their privileges, to suffer them to be unwarrantably, taken away, and they be silent and tame under the outrage but it will also rouse and atdmatedur true republican brethren In other states, to discountenance those encroachments," spiinging from party violence"; which prove so em barrassing and Under which they labor. The liber ties pf republics are seldom overthrown at once. Phey are generally stolen away by niecemeal. i nere seems to my,mind the same need of activi- tame need of w.w umyn i me nMcmui,-. ne omy ming bin demagogues caught at the bait, caressed the I intend by addressing you in thrs manner, is to at. vagrant, took him to the office above the Bridge, te.tnptiobnne about the Selection of some uniform iiwf afi-r ntnrh lmivH..tUi. .-i....AA .. ty at this time that thSr,e' was in'-1776 ; the onlrlthe' statement that hi nn .. . difference is, ve then had; o 'fiffht for our liberties, ojjt now ail we have to do, to ebect the desired ob ject, is to exercise a? we ought our constitutional privileges. With this view I hone all those anx ious that the people should retain in. their own hands "the whole power wjiich they can convenient ly exercise, will sign the petition proposed in this article. The sooner this step be taken the better. It will give the Governor greater lime to assemble his council. I had not thought, until the occurrence ofthe fac, that such a measure as the act of Jast session .could ever have been resorted to in this state. But if the plan before laid down be adopted, I appe- njmcunejnrea ded ; and the reproof they shall thus receive, will be a warning td our statesmen to take", care how iey kui luviivuii uie iilil aim Privileges Alfiirniritilt4 ,t,i.- ,.-f.... j . , . irtv;a solemn cauttontbh em tohewrehf ahothpHirrtei. the i sacrificing the first principles of ourad nirable con i Motion, in order to.retain taenia office or to jraiil hw places. ; Let US all, then, as one inan, stand by that freedom which has cost bur forefa'h;rs and ourselves so much blood and treasury ; atid hot conseht that it be 'avid fov the emolument of an individual I There can be i-d danger, w,hile Mn dison remains the man of the people, but h will be the people's choice.. If he foreet the Jeoplei and be led away by .the spirit of bakjc the people can then consult their own jddgilfcntas to the pro. per course to pursue. For njVd part, one of my maxims is, that I s tr'st a good m-n irt publie tire, wftf pof which would be m safe la the haiids of a. bad one. . ' f .These thoughts . are laid before you, for pirbHe investigation. If thry meet the'approbation ofm fellowcitizeris,'! trust they "will be attended to. If not, t assure Ji5u, I have'been actuated by the pu . rest motives and shall in either caae stand acquit' ted to inystlt. I here 'can be nothing unwarranta ble in attempting by all proper means, top! cser that blessing, to obtain which fbr my country, far; myself and for posterity, taaiiyyeai's of my youtU were cheerfully devoted. I am, respectfully, yours-, fee. WILUAM POKIER RutheffoYd County, March 8. Boston, March 13. (C? The following i? ,a democrnuc matTasnvre, to supply the tlefeit in HENKY's Letters, iti which he has not implicated the Federalists. It is copied from a handbill, published in Sa lem, on Saturday last.) ANOTHER PLOti! The heat of Election ha'chf teyjb of Flats and ; r , Faluhood. . Last Friday a stranger of good aMres and per sonal appearance, and about 23 yt-ars of age, ar rived at a tavern in Hivethiil and s'opptd for re fresrynent. After cor.vcrbiog vijtb soiue of the -inhabitants' and ex filing' their curyMty,"' and knowing 'K it tj." lle'u-y &,- was designed, as a powerful tlr.ciior.eer. r; fc ne for the "democratic pariy, to wi.k.h unpster belongs, he pretend ed U'i was j.ist fromQicbec, and had in his pos session evidence of most horrid treason commit. ted by men esteemed the most upright and distin guished in the nation and that he had actually, seen the treasonable coi respondent: with fJritjsI cfilseiv.- A th t,WH-lr twt oftieers in Ha- verKillwaa to be held on' Monday next, the Jaco- copy and sign a certificate which one of the.e dis turbers of the peace hud prepared. All this was. done with the secrecy that usually accompanies, villainy : fur they refused to permit B;ai ley Ihtu ly, Esq-to be present and examine him. 'After he -had left Haverhill, where he called hlmselF Ka'.haiel F.mcry, t!ie good people of tlt town, ere alarmed for the public safety, c.r.d becam Tn an uproar ; for the Damning Ctai.EicAT,R or this vagabond was triumphantly exhioited as. undoubted evidence of Federal Tveasorsi by Mr. Francis Eaton, a democratic lawyer,' and post , master in I hat town. So great war the ferment aricl: excitement proV duccd by this most base and inijrnous afluir, that rtflectirig men thought it ejtpedwnt to investigate and sift this mountain of false nood ; accordingly the man was pursued to Sdeui, where heanid . late at night, called himself Timothy Jm, and at this place also satd he was jost fi-cn.'Q.iibec. lit '.he morning, as' soon as it vkW ascertained that he, vvs in town, a warrant was .obt i Tried, and he"vt 3 , " apprehended and txamiiwdlieTore )ohn PhVkce, Jim. Esq. lie denied none cf the facts, admitted his guilt,-and was ordered jl the magistrate to trecogni? in the sum of five hundred dollars for his .earanre at the Supreme Judical Couit. Aphewas unable, to obtain bail, he is nw com milted to prison for tiirl for h's crime. An i'm- r mense tonrourse of pcc.pleattenc!ed the examina lion, and all were disgusted and alarmed at th unfolding ofthe shameless and abandoned art and devices resorted to by om-denlgtuto ex cite the feelings ofthe public at every vlecfion,jo destroy by base calumny the fairest characters, and to sustain by the. most iniquitous means the totter, ing cause ol Democracy. vUx.ti examination, he- confessed that he hacl signed a jivper yesterday at Haverhill, charging " col. Pickering withholding a treasonable corrt s pmWcnce with the British, and alleging that he had"seen the letters from colonel, Hamilton' ; that lip npifcr vuzz in rnailo a K A .....i.i -.1 . - ...v... ....-I ....... , ,,rwi ualVU IUC lUail l activi-iwas'nnestioncd vetV hnri. ,! ,.. " "" y..ii)ii5 tvcoueti--tout rte Dove tne ouoge, aU there the gentleman fno am nc, ii ncjiuH oeen a gentleman he would not have used me so) wrote the paper which he the prisoner at their request signed, and Jcft there they wanted him to swear to it, but refused, be. cause (as he now said,) he thoiijJif it v"as lr! k Dough to tell a He without swearing to It. He ' said, that when at : Haverhill, hcculltd his nam Nathaniel Emery, but that his real name was l i-nir-thy Medey Joythat. he JUcs at Middlcton, NT H.whad been a trader, : but hew embarra'd -that he bore ho ill will to colonel Pickering, knew nothing evil of him, was sorry fur what he had done, and should not have done it if he-had not laiitinto sueh eompanjrat fisvvThtllr , Id coi robauon of his statement , wri.s served on mm oi viiUQieton, and sundry sn ail hotes-'wid
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