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1 '"i"-' JVV. 1003; I- FRIDAY J UN l s iBi5lrr : a . " ,. , . ..v ' - Y ' ' -" I - - 1 ) RALEIGH. fN. C.) PRINTED WEBKtT,.9t A1.KX. tVCAS Termi lf iuicription V Three' dqlLu--f yew-; one half to be paid in advance. NO tr.WWff wo oer dian three months after a yeorB subsection b ml notice thereof shall havebe?treii.-r- verh'jwwnw.notexceediiig 14line are insejrdthrko for one dollar, ana,or weu.y-iic nuent insertion; ana in fiu-c .prupurMun wucc nwic i a greater number Of hoto than tourteen, ted at PhUajleipbia, has hid the boldness 'toJEatfrW day we jpblc a positional' the de Political.- ' FROM THE .GLEANER. V ' 'Mn -Miner I send you another letter from ay neighbor Quickly, . fldis really in trouble, and I cat assure yw that Oakhitl, though remarkable-fur its obedience to the laws, is not (reeflrom considerable appearance of uneasi ness "6a att the unhiard-rftaxes, laid updn every ttnug, and the degrading terms, im posed on mechanics, as conditions on which they may follow their trades-. .Yours, SAMUEL MARKHAM. OakViH.Mav 20, 1815. --f ' : , Mister Cleaner Printer .Were the children of firael in the land of Egypt more tyrant-rid than we .jar&jLJrJpjywere'- forced to make 'birick without strawjjand arf not ordered to nay more " taxes than we have money ? I am half distracted with fear and vexation. More taxes as you are alive 1 .But I'll try to com pose myself nnd tell you : " ;. v ;: I had hardlv got back from carfyins my last letter to Mr. Markham, when, who should ride lip but a gentleman in a light wagoc. He call ed for breakfast," "and Dorothy got him a com fortable cup of coffee, some ham and eggs, broil ed a piece of fresh fish, and gave him as good . meal as the season would allow. Well, ! didn't suspect him he (old me the news of Bo ny, and I felt my heartbeat a little more regu lar. After breakfast he stepped into (he sloop tufare the ioor ;ind looking oyer my meadows remarked that 1 had a fins farm. So, so i re plied 1, smiling, for I do feel the better for owning a snug place. And how many lots have jour? A' told him. And what is it worth? quoth he.' t told hitri what I had been offered, : end all about it. Pray sir, said he, do you keep a chaise ? No, said I, but I have a light wa gon like yours that I use on the farm, and ride to meeting in Ave, aye, said he, and pray can - you tell me what o'clock it is. at my watch, and Tarning Jnto he ho i; se jou haygot i furBishedisee, sai3"fie. Prettv well, ans I looked he seemed well satisfied. well answer ed I but I heean to smell a rat. He asked. I thought, too many questions for a stranger. I'll take a list if you -please, sir, said he, of I our property ! And pray sir, said I, siTjwhat ave you to do with a list of my property, sir ? Jus t to raw-? a little tax, quoth he, to pay the ex pe:.?cs of the war. Sir, said I, a man was here - just a-litthr bit ago, and I bought a licence to keep niy store, and a licence to keep tavern, and a licence to use my stills. I think you must be mistaken ju having any more tax to put on me, And did Vou give a list of your lands, lots, house and buildings ? inquired lie. I told him I had givea it all in to the county assess or, But that wont do, said he, I must have a list. . So I gave it in. You must nav a dollar sir avow his adhesion and allegiance to Bonaparte Biirna is a mah..of great influence -among us Americans j he is Aid de-Camp to governor Snyder, and was sent as the" bearer of the 8word-Jresentcd by Pennsylvania to Commo dore Decatur j the following may therefore be esteemed as evidence of . , - PUBLIC SENTIMENT. From pie Dt)mcratic Trtsi, frmiti by John I believe that there is hot a man in Ame rica, who does not belong tQ a -FRENCH PARTY, or an English one." LACKNOW LEDGE I BFXpNG TO THE FORMER. t bilcTe fionapnrte nerer did nor. never will commit an ctof violence againstiut. dbelfevethert7to wasold by his bre thren into Egypti he berag chosen to do a j great work. " I believe Mosesf was preserved in the bull rush basket floating ori the NUe being chosen to do a great work. , - I believe the stripling: David was taken from the sheenfold, and preserved when he cut off the skirt of SauPs Garment, being chosen to da a great work, for he had a Goliah to slay. " I believe the stripling Napoleon of Corsi ca, was preserved at Dunkirk, at Arcole, at Lodi, Marengo, and a hundred other , places, being also chosen Jto do a great work, for he has a Goliah yet to' mj-v'r " I believe the writer of this creed is a De mocrat if he is not mistaken in the meaning of the word. "" "It is signed, : J. B." filfe of TournelouD. , The enemVt cominer up, we eontiaaed our retreat, and I formed the rear; guard. ' Haring arrived in the evening before La Perra Gaucher, we found the corps of Kliest occupyiBgythat town, with cavalry on the great road of Coulommers, while another lare corps of cavalryextended beyond the left of the ene my 's arm Our. position was critical, it was almost desperate. We got out of it by aCun. expected piece of good fortune. , Some of the Duke offreviso's troops covered our move ment jTroaj tfie corps qf Kliest; an heroic defejice of tny'trs in the village of, Montis stopped the eneftVs advanced guard night 'jeame on, and We "effeetejl dur movement without any loss.; As. we eoutd no longer resume therpaiAf Maux we look, that nf Cliarentan. and in the evenine of the 29 thf ve oceupied Char en ton, St. Maude j from him. sesseu by We ramily of Napoleon ? Had it ; been possible to reckon upon the union of all th heads of the army, if it had not been pro babia that the private interest of some. would have clashed with the most generous and pa triotic measures, if the moment had not been so pressing, since the 4th of April had already arrived, and if was on th( 5th that thht desperate ection was to have taken place, of which the vb ject wa the destruction at the last soldier ertdof ine capuaiu wasio a voneert among the chiefs ; of the army that it would have been proper to' resort j but , in the actual state pf things, it"ber came necessary to epofine efforts to the free de parture of jjthe different corps, of tlj army, in order to detach them from the Emperor and neutralise 'bis lojetfti, and6 unite, them to other French troon&.which wet at adistanea i. 1 "Foreign. JImwer o f the Duke of Ragusa to the Proclama tion dated Oulph of Juan, March 3,1813. . An odious accusation is brousrht against me nil the face of all Europe, and whatever may be the marks ot passion and improbability which it beaCmy honor compels me to reply to it. What I here offer is not a justification, of which I have no need jjt iLa faithfuLexposition of laets, which will enable every one to appreciate the conduct I have pursued. I am accused of having delivered Paris to fo reigners, when the defence of that city was the object of general astonishment. It was with SSJPlJSktliiircJB i . W it fc ft.t J bad t QuiUMiib at as gainit all the collected forces of the allied ar mies; it was in positions hastily taken, where no defence had been prepared, and 1 with 8000 men, that I resisted foreight hours 45,000, who were successively engaged against me ; and it is a military fete of such a sort, so honorable to all engaged in it, that has been audaciously charged a treason ! . ., : After theffair at Rheims, the Emperor-Napoleon operated on the Marne with almost alt his forces, and gave, himself up to the illusion thai hi movements, threatening the communica tion of the enemyy the latter would retreat ; while, on the contrary, the enemy resolved, af ter having formed the junction of the Silesian army with (he grand army, to march upon Pa ns, jvivweak armv corns, composed of 3.300 '--- lor leave to wear -vour wateh lr. suit! hp. 1 1 infuntrv. and 1.500 horaP. nnd thni nf flio Tliilrn wish cried Uorothy the watch was in the nrcsi- of Treviso, amounting to from 6to 7,000 men were.icit upon the Ainne, to keep in check the army of Silesia, only seperated from ns by that nver, and w?irh after the junction of Uulow's corps, and various reinforcements amounted to more than 90,000 men. The enemy passed the Aisne, and forced us to fall bick. My instruc tions being to cover Paris, we retired tpon" Fismes ; and the Duke of Treviso and myself a dopted a system of operations, which,, without compromitting us was calculated to retard the march of the enemy this was by successively taking up strong positions, which the enemy qent s breeches pocket, interrujited 1. (?ome, ome k-Dorothy, we'd better be nalienr. She went ont ami I saw her busv pnt'io on some Water. -Pray'he;spry sir, Said i; for there's no kaowing what my wife may do. You must pay a dollar a year for leave to ride in your lit tle wagon ; and :as for the lis? of your' furni ture, said he, as lam in great haste (casting an anxious eye, towards the kitchen fire, which mv woman was blowing with iho bellows) I'll call for that another, tmerso good mOniiug to you sir. I scolded and Dorothy cried. The gentle- man, However, behaved vorr ffo the law had made it his duty that the fine was) J ,7 "'S't " 1 Q,a not give a strict account, I told him honestly I woqld, but my heart is full of fear and alarm.v-We have tit i to lihortv now.. scourged With nenrnlAnc Amt... .in it end 1 m told that government have got in debt more than 8 150,000,00,0. , Why Mr. Printer, it is a terribb sum. Mv John has calculated it up, and says that all" the wagons in the state could hardly carry it, for he says it Would take-mnrp t linn snnn e Savi if ilirna in nil a ror-o f !i II " - a vi uunurs, u wouiu, aidside by le, reach .eooo luiles.-The dayj looks distant enonli hpn ra .Wn lex I.. 1 , . 0 - ... .v nu ouau get I IU VI i , "' naietui taxes IT all th is o be paid, and mm uiaBuot tne democrats will keeplidd H'gmore to it. I would be clad to' know where has gone and what good it has i me money V'one. I don,t - . ' Mrueps during our Iife; timVand if oiir chil 1 don't believe wpWI "j mvm u win do well. bad We arestriMj- flled round (hp k'j oT 5 Bailor Wll Uhl tnnlr th. nr I H., I LV. I ir 1 ,1 Pnndl 1 r . "' ".) Milieu? uj gicov f:l or attc"umoii exertion he could shake off. 1 . ; 1 Wp- Printer, a poor taMidden kffllcted citi- zen JOHN F. QUICKLEY. FROM Tim A I T P . ' Colonel Binn,41ie Irisli Editor of the liwal. T 1 ''ruc Amcricaii'rpaperprui and Charonne. - The duke of Treviso was "charged with the defence of Paris from the canal to the Seine, and myself from the canalto the Marne. My troops were reduced to 2,400 infantry and 800 horse. This was the handful of men that bad escaped a multitude of glorious combats. The 'troops commanded by gen. Compans were placed un der my orders; they consisted of .some detach ments, rfronuvarious . depots,, of -.veterans and troops of every kind, who had been collected rather to make a show than to fight ; then all my forces consisted of 7,400 infantry, of 70 dif ferent battalions, and about 100 horse. At day breakj reached thence I hastened towards those of Romainvilie, Such, then, was the object of the conferences . which took place with the Prince of Schwartz zenburg. . While I was making dispositions to inform my comrades of the situation of things, and of the part which I thought if my duty (o take, the duke of Tarentum, the prince of Mosk wa, the duke of Vicenza, and the duke of Tre viso, arrived at my quarters at Essonne,The three first told me (hat the Emperor had been ' ompeJled lo...sjgalhe.roinise4i4iis abdiea-l'ioii-7 and that they were going with this condition to negociate the suspension of hostilities. 1 made them acquainted with the arrangements with prinee Schwartzenburg, but which wtre not complete because I wlrltteigulfiitee'wL'eii I had demanded ; and J then declared to them, that since they ere agreed upon a change which the- safety of thtjr State Required, and which was the sole object which were the key of the position and which gen. Compani, on"retiring from Claye had omik. ted-to occiiiiv : but the enemv was already the"fe, and it was in the wood of Romainvilie that the of my proceedings, I would never separate my battle commenced. The enemy extended him- self from them. . The Duke of Vicenza expres sed on the right and left ; he was every where ed a desire to. see me accompany them to Pa checked and repulsed, but his numbers werejris, thinking my junction with them after what constantly iricreasipg. Several infantry charges j had happened would be of great w eight. I yitld- had taken place, and a number of soldiers bad been killed at niy side with the bayonet, at the entrance ofjhe village of Belleville, when Jo seph sent me authority, in writing, to capitu late, which authority 1 still have in my posses sion. . This was at 10 o'clock ; at 11 Joseph was already-far from Paris, and at 3 o'clock I was still fighting but at that hour having long had the w hole of niy force "engaged, and observing that there were still 20,000 men a bout to enter fresh into line, I sent different of ficers to Pfince Schwartzehburg to acquaint bun that I was-ready to-eater into-arrangement. Only one of my efheers could reach him, and certainly I had not sen, him too soon j for when he returned, ,'een. Compans havine evacuated the heights or Paul in. the, enemy was advan cing in; the streetjof Belleville, my only point of retreat. I drove him out of it by charging ed to his desires, leaving the comnrantl of niy corps to the oldest General of Division, gmng him orders not to make any. movemeut, and announcing to him my speedy return. I ex plained the motives of my change to prince Sehwartzenburg, whor full of loyalty, found them legitimate and unanswerable, and I fulfil led the promise whieh I had made to piy. com- . rade in the interview which w e had with the Emperor Alexander. At eight o'clock, one of my aides-de-camp, arrived and told me that, contrary to my direct orders, acd in spfte of his' most u rgentrepresient at I otli he tJenfaTrhad" put the troops in motion for Versailles at four o'clock in the morning, terrified as they were at the" personal dangers with which' they thought they were threatened, and of which they had conceived an idea from the arrival and depar- " ture of several' officers of the Staff who had the head of his column in person, at the head of .come from Fontainbleau. The step waslaken. 40 men, and thus setlfring the return ot my ami inp inmg was lrreparanie. :7 troorm. hut I fnnnil nivsplf forced almost closei Such is the true and faithful account of this - -j out maTiceuverintr to.turn them, a course which thus prepared us the means of heating some of his detachments. "Orders arrived for our pro ceeding byTorced marches npon Chalons. We executed "them ; but oil reaching- Vertus, we w ere informed that tlie greater part of the ene my's army occupied Chalons, while another di vision of it debouched upon Epernay ; anil that Kliest's corps, w hich had followed us, was pass ing the Mame at Chateau Thierry. Iicarning at the same time that Napoleon was still before Vitry, and had a rear guard at Sommonpuis, we marched w ithout losing a moment to join him, and on the 24th March I took & position at Soude. I still thought the French army at hind for who, in reality, could have believed iu the passage of the Marne w ithout a: bridge, and the Emperor Napoleon would have left, be tween Paris and himself, forces eightfold more considerable than he could colleet ? On the morning of the 25th, I had scarcely learned the certainty of this movement when the whole en emy's army debouched upon me. 1 retired can nonidingihe army, andhe whole retreat wonld liave been made with the same order, had not some troops, which unfortunately remained at found .them- up to the walls of Paris. Hostilities were sus pended, and the troojis re-entered3yjlhin the barriers. The witteu arrangement which vas published at the time was not signed till mid night, On the morning of next day the troops evacur ated Paris, and I proceeded to Essonne, where I took a position. ,1 w ent io see the Emperor Napoleon at Fontainbleau. He seemed to me aware of his situation, and disposed to termi nate a contest .which he could no longer main tain. He resolved on the plan of entrenching himself, 4of uniting the little force which rq mained to him, of endeavouring to encrease it, and to negociate. This was the only reasona ble course he could pursuej and-4 was com pletely of his opinion. I immediately set off to order the commencement of those delensive works' which the, execution of this plan render ed necessary. The same day, April the lstj he came to visit the position, and there he learn ed bv the return of some officers whom I had eould not attack without reconnoiteringorwith- left to give up the barriers, the prodigious fer A . . . . ' t. ! . A Jr " .1 l. l ... t vi mentation oi runs, ine oeciaruuoii m wic em peror Alexander, and the revolution which was in progress. At this moment the resolution of sacrificins the remains of the army to bis ven geance was taken s he talked of nothing but a desnerate attack, though there was not a singl chance of success in his favour, with the means which, remained to him. From that moment all his orders, all his instructions, all' his dis course was in conformity to this plan,' the e.ve cutton of which was fixed for tlie&tfi oj Jipru, ..Account's from Paris arrived in; succession i the decree f forfeiture reached me. ..-The si tuation of Paris and of France Was deplorable and the future presented the most gloomy pros pects, unless the fall of the Utnperor cnaogeo their destinies, bv "makinc their moral peace with all Europe, and thus extinguishing the ha tred, which he had exerted, ine allies, sup ported by the insurrection of all the-great towns of the kihgdohi, masters of the capital, and only, having opposed to them a handful oLhravemen who hadsurvived so many dis 'asters, and - every -where proclaimed that; they 1 T " man e war on rMapoieon aione ; h neces sary to put them at once to the trial, to take them at . their word, and to compel them to renounce 'the vengeance , of which they would have made France the victiml; At was necessai ty lhat theatmy should 'lagaioJ)oinf lialionnl by adopting the interests of almost the w hole of the inhabitants, jvho declared against the Emperor, arid loudly called for a salutary revo lution whieh should produce their deliverance. Was it hot the duty of.every good Frenchmaii, .hqweveT"iWated),"'to contribute to a change which saved tlWcountry,and delivered jt from a c ru s ad e o f s nl I E u r Cpo ; iBar m s against it -that !'jprtion;'qf;.fKiopeveU);wben was pos- 'when tl ft0,,Wer capyj ep a'aiream, and I?eain our rear; it became necessary to wait ed ' ". er qneqtgo.t..Bp,.he. waa' eompell for them-an hour at Sommesous, and maintain , ;ui luiever, unless oy great ou rse vKgainst colossal forces,; whose nam bera were constantly increasing ; the passage of the defiles constantjiv cost us some losses, and we terminated the diyy taking a position ou the heights of Allemsnt, close to Sezunne. I do nbt sneakaUllof thfdlvisiofrof Oen Pacthod, which in pursuance of direct' oVders from the Emperor manceuYered on his own account, fell in with the enemy's army, and was taken:with- outmy knc-ying even its existence ; 60 great event, which has had, and will have an influence on all my life. I he Emperor, by accusing me, w ished to save his own glory, the opinion of his talents, and (he honour of the soldiery. As to the ho nor of the soldiers, there was no ceed of any card for that; it never shone with more lustre than in that campaign; but' as to what con cerns liiniself, he will deceive no dispassionate) man, for it would be impossible to justify , that series of operations which marked the last years of his reien. tHe accuses me of treason I I ask where is its reward? I rejected with contempt every sort of personal advantage which w;as offered,to me, and placed myself voluntarily in the situa tion of the whole army. Had 1 any particular attection for the House ot Bourbon r Whence could I; derive it. 1 who only entered an ac- tive.life a short time before that family, ceased to govern France ? Whatever opinion I might have formed of the superiopmind of theKing, of his goodness, and of that of the Princes, it was very far, from" the reality ; this charm, w hich is found when near them, was unknown ' to mer-and could not eive birth to those' Sacred fmagement. which now bind meto themiind wnicii ineir present nusioruines, so-iime meri ted, bind still closer; sacred I engagemenTs - for ' to men who have hearts, testimonies qf regard and esteem are a thousand times more valuable than gifts and benefactions. What Was. then the motive of my actions fVAn ardent love of my country, which has all ; my life been the. master of my heart, and absorbed all my ideas? I wished to save France, from destruction; I wished to preserve if from combinations', which , would have brought on its run ; from; those fatal eomJbi'natrqii8tJeluf. the most strange -illusions of prjde, aud so dfteiT renewed iu -8 pain j in Russia, and in Oefmany, andwhich -threatened a frightful catastrophe which it waa . necessary instantly to prevent. ' A strange and mournful fatality prevented our . deriving from the return of the House of Bourbon'all the advantages which Were hoped Lf rom iESJiy-France fhut-Jio wevrJSjewaiol them the speedy ehd of a lata! w ar, the oenver ance'of the capital and of the kingdom, an ad-. ' ministration mild and paternal, and a trapquili ty and liberty which were unknown to us. . Some days more, and this liberty, so deiarj so necessarv for all Frenchmen, had, been cobsq lidaTed for e verTXll W - ..:- " The foreigners, it is said, werejost without resource, and it is I who am accused nf having saved them .J 4 their saviour I I who always fought them'iiithr'as'.mue nrgy -as eojat ancy; whose zeal was never cooled for a moment. I w ho after h aving attached my ha met ort he mos t briliiantsuecesses' of the campaien,-h ad.alrea dy once preserved - Paris,- by the' combats of ,1
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