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! V 1 J 1, I PRINTED WEEKLTB : : FOR THE PBOf RtETOBS, . , ,v At $3 per annum-half pajabie t? flrfrcnc. Front A JltcAmond Enquirer Messrs Editors-Id imttatioti of the curses ofCormac O.Kelly, upon Donneraile, I send youth, versification of Mrfla'f curses at Baltimore: i" v . " Mr. Clay9 Curses at Baltimore. H Alas ! Tm ick and woe begone, Wywering: hopes are oVerlhrown, My labour has been vainly spent,' ' 1 never can be President i So mad am !, it makes rae roar, Then hea"" me naen Baltimore Sooner be Plague upon us seat . Than Jackson be ih'e President. May War on us its horrors vent E'er Warrior be the President This Country waste with Famine gaunt E'er Chieftain be made President. Here, Perftknce, make thy descent " If he's to'be the President. The Union be't asunder rent, So Jackson's not pur President, let Bargains all things circumvent . 'Tis better than qch President. Corruption I come I am content If once kept off this President. Establish e'n "idfe precedent." But choose not Andrew President., -- Alas ! I'm sick and woe begone, , Let Phy-ic to the dogs be thrown. If he to me bad vigor lent, " : This man should not be President. My steps should be untiring bent ; . Throughout my country's vast extent ' , I'd take theHermit Peter trade And boldly'prench a new crusade ' ' 1 To every city hamlet town In pilgrim weeds. I'd gt medowo I To every woman, man and child, ' ) 1 I heat my oreasi in irenzy wnu t-And argue till my breath was spent, Gainst making J aasson rresraeni. Avert, oh Heaven ! this dire event Let pot this Chief be President. The only prayer I ever sent Is make hot Jackson -President. ... TvOuld ruin me to all intent To have old Hick'ry president. . " He earqaot from bis path beient, He'll never do for President. No presses can be bribed to " print,1 If this roan be the President. fio men on useless Missions sent, The devil take such President. What will become of John of Gaunt If HickVy be the President ? What will become of Princely Hal, Like Lucifer you'll see hint fall 7 And never rise from that descent If once this fellow's President. To flinders then the world be rent So Jackson's not the President. Query Ghent... - To ifie Editors of the U. Stales' Telegraph. Gkstxemew: Mr. Clay, in his dinner speech at Baltimore, prays that our country rosy be visited with " War, Pes ilence and Famine." in pieference to the election of Qen. Jackson to the Presidency William Pitt, vhom tlVe aristocratic party ' in the United States look op to as the beau ideal of a states man, plunged Europe in a war dhich wrapped the continent' in flames for wore than twenty y ars, from motives similar to those of Mr. Clay, vis: that h might retain his station as crime minister of n?tand. . It is fortunate for this country that Mr. Clay does pot possess the I same power of ' stirrinff heaven and earth V' iff Yi A mrt have his awd authoritv for asserting My attention has lately been forcibly attracted to the similarity of the characters of Pitt and Clay by reading some verse, ""e rbJ Jj; f LARS writes a letter to Mr. Clay, tel poet Coleridge, which were intended for the . . . . e Ua u former, but rnitht witU greater propriety. if Img htm how SollCllOUS,, he IS to his n ravers should nrevail ' be aDPlied to the latter. The coincidfnee between the title of the piece to which I allude, and the extract a bove quoted from Mr. Clay's speech, is so re markable, thal,everv one must be struck with it ; and when we add to this, the. letters four, which form his name." we are almost induced to believe thtthe poet looked into futurity, and attempt to paint the -desperate ravings of the American demagogue. ' But I will detain you no longer from the verses, which will speak for themselves. Let every , man who reads them, reflect that such is the fate which Mr. . Clay has invoked on him and all that is dear to -. him rather than he should lose the office of Secretary of State : FIRE, FAMINEAND SLAUGHTER. - A War Eclogue. V The scene a desolated tract in La Vendee Fa mine is discovered lying on the ground ; to her enter Fire and Slaughter. . j.- , ' ; -! . Famine. Sisters . sisters J who sent you here? , ; S-' v , .i J ; :. . Slaughter.-(to Firef) will whisper it in her ear. . . f Fire. No ! no! nd! 1' . ' Sprits hear what spirits tell : , T'witl make a holiday in hell, xk:U, No t-no ! uo! .. V;,; v v -Mysielf 1 named him once belowf And all the ouls, tbat'damned be, , Lea,ptiip at once in anarchy, 3 Haj j..d their hands and danced for glee. ' The., no longer heeded me; -t hugh'd to bear hell's turning rafters " Unw ilUn I v re-echo laughters ! no'.no! . . . ' I : ' Spirit har what spirits tell: 4 - 1 wa tnakeait holiday in hell! ; " p. Fi imine Whisper it sister ! so and so ! tla.khiut. soft and slow 1 vughlcr. Letters four da form his namat: Ana 9, I rfft.Tbe same i The tame 1 Slaug hiet.-He catae bv ste<) andtnldck r And I trove drank he blood since thfn T Of thrice three hundred thousand men. - Both W hp bade you do ? : i ; Slaughter The same.! the same t t ' 1 1 i -Letters fonr do form his name. . ; I, . ' , He let me loosed and cried ilalloo ! . C To biin aloiievtht praise is due.k ' ' i jntine- Thanks, sister, thanks ! the men have bled, . .,.. . ''"5:-:V''i:':t;' Their wives and , children faint for, bread. I stood in a swampy field of battle ; v i With boi,pes and skulls T made a. rattle, To frighten the wolf and carron-crow C ? Andthe honeless dog - but they would not go. So off I flew;: for how could I bear j:" -To see them g orge their dainty fare ? I heard 9. groau and a peevish squall, . w . And through the chink of a cottage wall -Can you guess what I sa'v' there ? V . - - BoA. Whisper it, listen, in our ear, ; t : Fflwttne baby beat its'dying mother: I had starved the one, and vai starving the o- ther! - -; " - ' ' ' L; Both.Vho bade you do rt ? Famine The same ! the same f Letters four do form his name, " He let me. loose, and cried Halloo !, To him alone the praise is due Wisdom comes with lack of food, . I'll gnaw, I'll gnaw the multitude, r ' 'Till the cupof rage 6'erbrim : ' They shall seize him and his brood. v 1 v - Slaughter. They shall tear bim limb from - ;V: limb! : ' ' -,: Tire.O .thankless beldames and untrue ! o Ad is this all that you cau do , , ' For him, who did so much foryouf . , Ninetymouths he, by my troth"! ' Hath richly catered for you both ; -And inf an hour would you repay An eight years' work I Awpy ! away' ! I alone am faithful ! I Cling to him everlastingly. , ' From the Baltimore Republican, of June 9. V MR. CLAYiaPtiTS , PAID WITH ' THE PEOPLE'S MONEY. We give below, an extract from the Report of the Committee on Retrench ment, which will serve to give the people of this country some' idea of the wasteful manner in which , tlie; public money has t)ren expended by the present " econo fcajdmjojsuaijo dent now, that there was no necessity for employing a special Messenger to carry dispatches to Rio Janeiro, for, Mr. John H. Pleasants having, deserted them, they went safely to hand by the Captain of the merchantman in which Mr. PIea sants took his passage for Rio. Mr. Pleasants was the warm supporter of the Administration he wrote to the Secre tary of State, Mr. Clay, that " the de ranged state of his feelings99 made tra velling desirable to him, and asked for some appointment which would give him the opportunity of going , abroad Mr. Clay trumps up this Mission to Rio Ja Janeiro, beyond all doubt, for no other purpose than to accommodate this Admi nistration Editor. Mr. Pleasants sets out with his important dispatches, in f the William Tellr-from : JVeW-York---gets stcA; on the voyage, and becomes disgus ted with the passengers, who, he says, were " for the most part mecAaitcs" auits' the William Tell, and leaves his important , dispatches r ,k;t- U nn, in charce 01 tne Captain, while he goes to England to see ) the country comes back, home, and charges the Government IS IN 1. 1 H.t!,IM HUNDRED AND FORTY lOL- preserve tne gooa opinion wmtn inutui ed him the charge conferred by the De partment of State," and assures the Hon orable Secretary, his patron, that "if the William Tell goes safely, thedispatches will safely reach their : destination.39 Why ! we have no doubt the Captain and his employers could and would have told Mr. Clay, that the William Tell goes safely, the i dispatches witt. safely reach their, destination,9' ' and would have told bim further, that they would "reach their destination" as Safely without Mr. Pleasants as with him. ; "The whole af fair was. trusted! to the Captain at last, and might as well have boen at first, and the. $1940 saved to the Government, or, which ought to be the same thing to the People. ' J : I Suppose, we heard the case put by a friend the other day , a merchant of this city were to employ a supercargo to go out in a vessel which. he was sending to Rio, to sell the cargo there and purchase a return cargo, for which service he a greed to give bim $1940 -that the su percargo were to quit the vessel before he got half way to - her : port of destination, and go to Europe, stay there for a while, and arrive at New-York -and that from thence, he were to write to the Baltimore merchant thus : I am - hot; more surj prised to find myself here than you will be to bear that I am here, but the truth is, I eot sick en-the vovage, sick of the ves- sel, whose cabin was not more than fifteen t sent out so' London with despatches 8 feet. square, and sick of the passengers, I days after the inaoguration of thie Presi who " were for tie most part mechanics? dent, at a cost of $1473 for itbout 112 4 and Tconcludcd to leave-the bHg ancI tp niana, wnere t aave peen aevoun Vfe w? weeks Vtoithe .?; purpose of seeing: the country9'?-! am very sorry , yerf sor ry indeed that I was obliged ; tc( desert my ; charge, but Teally,sir, " convinced as I am that my fe would vha ve fallen a5 sacrifice,, if 1 had remained In :. iliat cramped cabin with those mechanics," I cannot blame myself, and l r hope,: sir, you will not be offendftd. If ttye. brig goes safely, yoar cargo will safely reech its d est i nation and I have, no dOu btihe Captain will attend, faithfujly, to every thing, :Bot what I chiefly fite now-fbr vii", to' preserve that goodopiniori' which ocuredmev thjp!charge? coiedby youi and to request you i to rerit me that small $1940 which I was o have for going to Rio.39 - - Suppose a Supercargo were to act in this way, .wouldn't the mere ante laugh at him ? ; We have no doufa that Mr. Clay did laugh in his sleeve, w ten he got the ridiculous letter from Mr. Pleasants, which;" we publish below 6 t he paid him 'the; $1940. Come easyo easyV is an old adage, and r we : presume the worthy Secrf tary of this economical" Administration, didn't think "M was worth while to be Very close with this . good friend of the Coalition, asfit was the Fepr piers ' money, and not his ow he. was to be paid out of. V ''y i . :: Extract from the Report) of the Com mitlee on Retrenchment. t Amidst the numerous; appointments of messengers made by the present . Administration, they will Select the account " of J. H. Pleasants, editor of the Richmond Whig, bees use that case, . in their estimation, presents th5 most, flagrant example of a buse: !.."- It appears that on the 19'h of April, a little dore than a " month after the inau-l; guration of the President, this gentleman received the appointment of Bearer of Dipatctjes" to Rio Janeiro arid Buenos Ay res. " The circumstances of his jour ney from Richmond to t Boston, , in . seek ing a passage his ultimate embarkation at Ne wxork, on jhe J?3th of iay, fjgi the William Tell, for South America ; . the incidents wrrch occurred pr boaid that vessel his leaving his ts important dis patches" in charge of the captain of the William leu, and coin, on board, a no- j ther vessel, bound to-Antwerp; his again debarking, from this vessel, a nd embark ing at sea on board a ship bound to Li verpool ; his ' spending the summer, in England, " in seeing the country,'' and his ultimate return to New York in' Oc tober ; are detailed in his letters, narra tive and penitential, the appendix marked Nol 9 ; whilst the subjoined ac count shows at whose expense these ex traordinary voyages were made, viz : Department of State, to John H. PUasants Dr' To this sum for voyages out and home, . : tt ? Kij, 7 l: . To actual expenditures in travel-. ling expenses and board,, from. the time of, leaving Richmond, j on the 19th of April; 1525 io 28th May, in the same year; in - S which interval 1 was seeking, ' : from Baltimore to Boston,; the means,, of getting to - . Buenos ' , Ayres," ' IS' L'---J To expenses on my return; from New Vork to Richmond, ; 0 To per diem allowance, at $6, from the 19th . of April to the 22d August, 126 days inclu- sive, 247 37 756 $1,940 Approved, H. Clay 7th Dec. 1826. This account was approved by. the Secretary without vouchers. , ' In the first place, your committee are of opinion that Mr. Pleasants was enti tled to no allowance for voyages, not one of which he performed in the public ser vice ; at all events if he paid his passage to Buenos A res, in the William Tell before embarking, this was the extent of the allowance which should have been made him. ;- '2 "v y; ? - Either his despatches were or were not of importance : if they were of im- puriaukc, iikc a soiaier on post, no con sideration should have induted him to have deserted them ; if they were of no higher importance than to have Tendered it safe that they should be confined to the captain of an ordinary merchant vessel, then they should have gone through ths channel, and Mr. Pleasants ought noto have been appointed !T for voyages, ; is. exorbitant, your commit tee believe,' beyond comparative rates of passage money, to par ts of the habitable globe the, most remote. By looking at some of the accounts of other bearers of Despatches, employed and paid; during the present Administration, the commit tee; find no corresponding rates. For example : Mr. George VVatkinswho was days Service,' Charged and received but $466 for passage money, as per the sub; joined account. ;r-Y-V;'-.:-v . , V . - -t r--,. t " :'r' ' ... ' '-' Mniied-Slales to George Watkint, Bearer of. Dei X , patches to England, in 1825, Dr.' . - ' Compensation from the, 12th of March! vto 1st July, 112.? days;t $6 ' ? per jrayi ;:r ; W $072 00 Allowance for the voyage out. - f and horae,:;t' ; ll 466TO0 jTraveJIino; , expences : from Washington to New" York; 36 00 Post Chaise 'and hair from ' Liverpool to London, at ;2 ; 7 shillings sterling per mile, - 97. 68 Expences on Ifeei qad ; ' i ' IQOQ MaU;rcoachT from London to " Liverpool, : -4 : ''. ; : ; 25 00 Expences on the road, 1 5 00 Travelling expenses from New York to Washington, 36 00 v 1347 00 j It moreover appears that Mr. Edward ubanaonment of my charge. As 1 am Wyre received, in 1826, but $600 for hre 1 have determined to devote a few passage money, but and home to Russia. t weeks lo the purpose of seeing the coun And that Theodore W. Clay, as bearer; try after which, 1 shall have the pleasure of despatches to Mexico, who, for 107: of giving you in person, a more detailed days' occupation, received $1,205 conf-! account of my voyage. pensation had allowed to him but $300 j With high respect, your obdt sery't, out and home, for passage money to Vera ; JNO. H. PLEASANTS. If this excessive allowance for passage So marked in the accounts reported in the monev to Mr. Pleasants be objectionable Report of the Committee on the expenditures his per diem compensation i is not the less i so: as your committee are clearly of opin-i ion - he was not entitled to one cent after the dav on which he left the William i Tell apd abandoned his despatches ; and, if - any person had. a claim for such a!low ance, ii was ine captain oi tne wiuiam Tell j to whom theduty of bearing these despatches had been assigned by Mr. Pleasants. Viewing this case, together,! with the" large expenditure made by this aaminisiraiKin ror pearing aespaicnes,". j as an abuse, vour committee will renort : l a bill for regulating the compensation of i . r Ji uearcrs oi aespaicnes. :W Mr. Pleasants to Mr. Clay .. . Liverpool, 7th July , 1825. My deartfU you are i surprised at the date ohmy let terj ani scarcely less surprised at the circumstance myself To be in England at all is what I never expected. To be here when J expected to have .been in Buenos Ayres, seems rather the effect of enchantment, than of ordinary causation. - It remains, sir, for me to account for this' apparent derelic- i tion of duty ; and I cannot but hope that a plain statement of the circumstances which. changed my destination, will ex culpate me from any blame in your eyes, solicitous as I am to preserve that good opinion which procured uie the charge Conferred by the Depnrtment of State. ' , Afier many ineffectual attempts to se curen earlier passage, iti which I was baffled by the diminished intercourse be tween the United States and the provin ces of South America, which lie beyond the Spanish Main, I succeeded in procur ing a passage in the brig William Tell, which sailed from New-Yoik on the1 28th May, lor the liver Plate,- This vessel was not such a one as I should have se lected, had I, had my choice; . Being simplv a merchant ship, it was destitute -of comfortable accommodations ; never theless, becoming impatient for action, and foreseeing, that, if I neglected that opportunity, I might meet with no other, J availed myself of it, and sailed, as sta I ted, on the 28th May. I speedily had cause to regret my precipitation inchoos- j ing such a snip. The cabin, not fifteen feet square, was destined, to accommo date in a voyage which would occupy from 60 to 90 days, 25 passengers. The quantity of. jhese individuals was, in no respect by their respective quali ties f they werey for the most part, me chanics, emigrating to thatVountry, and the filth of their persons, & obstreporous Qf their deportment, was by no means corresponding to the republican respectability of their profession. When the horrors of sea sickness were superad ded, to the other painful circumstances attending my situation, my sufferings be came greater than I can describe. C De prived of every comfort, with not ten feet square for exercise,- a ; pestilential air, and most offensiye smell pervading every part of the shipand -even without the most, common ; medicines, 1 assure you, sir, that death . would have been no un welcome visitor. I was seised; with h higii fever, and in ten days reduced, in my opinion and in that of those around me to thebrinki of the grave. At this time we spoke an American ship from JHe w-Yorky bound to A n twerp ; the cap- tain, who was like wise 111 j: was bearing for Fayal, in the. Azores, and, by. great persuasion, was induced to take me on board, in a miserable condition. - Two days after this" Removal, my new captain recovered his health : and - resumed. Ibis course fbir? Antwerp. Having no ini to avail myself of the- next ship that we might "speakand returh o the StaSjorga jo .Englahd'-Tromlthe : time that J boarded the' vessel in- which : I then was, I had begun slowly to 1 rfco ' ; ver,' from the superior comforts of J its . ;V accommodations. On the r 20th Jn -l -v we spoke the. brig, Olivej from 'New-YoVk -': to this port, and the captain .consenting ' to receive me, I arrived In Liverpool on the 1st inst. having been at sea 33 days. The dispatches which were entrusted to my care, I forwarded to Mr. Forbes, ia charge ot Capt. Hinraan, of the. Williato ; Tell, to whom lie t was consigned.; stating the reasons of my not bearing them In r . persbn, and " requesting Wml tor Toward, them to Mr. Raguet at Rio. If the Wil liam Tell goes safely, the dispatches will safely reach their destination. - These, - sir, are the I circumstances - which have brought me to England, and I hope they are such as to excuse iry a. 04 1UC oiaic "p. From the Kentucky Argus. MR. ADAMS' ACCOUNTS. It seems there is an act of Congress which allows our foreigb ministers a sa lary of $.9,000 per year, and authorizes the President to a low then an 6utt on leaving the United States, not exceeding one year's salary." These allowances are vtioiru uy ww w uc.iu iuu ui aucipcu ses. 1 on wnen jir. aaams was appointed one of the Commissioners to negotiate a treaty of peace with Great Britain, he was' our minister at St. "Petersburg. The Presi dent allowed him an outfit upon this ap puintmenr; bf $ 4,500, and Congress ap propria tad that -sum to pay it. - But "Mr." Adams maintained, trjat he was entitled to $9,000, and the 'President, hfter ta king the opinion of the Attorney Ueheral9 paid htm $ 4,500 more, out of the con tingent lund, without' any appropriation by law whatever f ,Mr. Adams performed the journey from St. Petersburg to Ghent by , water, and charged the Government $686,86, for . his expenses. Messrs. Gallatin and By ard travelled the sapie journey by I land, and charged $ 1,568. : At the doge of " the Ghent negotiation, Mr. Adams' char ged his travelling expenses back to' St. Petersburg, amounting to $ 886 86, trAicA journey he never performed But ascer tairiing that Alessrs. Gallatin arid Byard had tharged $ 1,566 for their real journey (rota St. Peterburg to jShent, he amends his bill, and charges the sam sum lor his imaginary journey (too Ghent lo St. Pe tersburg. ; . ' I : ', . Having charged travelling expenses back' to St. Petersburg, he was obliged, for the purpose of being consistent, to make another charge of $ 1,000, for tra veiling expenses from bt. Petersburg to Amsterdam, Ghent, Havre, &cl another journey which he never. performed f He went from .Ghent, alter concluding the treaty of peace, to Amsterdam, and thence to Paris, and while these imaginary jour neys were going on, he remained at -the latter place, and another item in h is ac count of $ 8S0, for expense at ;Paris ! On going from Paris to London, he waa allowed another full outfit of $9000! I - Thus, in about a year, Mr. Adams received ah outfit from Si. Petersburg to Ghent, $9000; an outfit from .Gfienrto London, $9000 ; a year's salaiy$9000 ; ' travelling expenses from St. Petersburg to Ghent, $886 86 jj travelling (expenses back to St. Petersburg, ' $ 1,566, and thence to Amsterdam, &c. $ 1000, being up wards of $ 31,000 in one y ear, besides other . contingencies ! Remember, this was in 1814, and the first part of 18 16 , Where was J ACKSON about thai time f Eating aevrns with 1 his starving, half clad soldiers, in the Indmn country, be cause his government was too poorjp feed ur ciomeinem i . xie was leacing nis tri umphant band of citizen : soldiers from . the conquered country of a savage. foe, to. meet the Wellington invincibles at New Orleans; His , economical governmtn( could not spare a tew dollars to expedito . the arms necessary for the country 9 d e ; fenced in a steam, boat from Pittsburg : ; . but , to 'save money, must ship them in a . v keel, which was" suffeted to - stop along . the river to make up its freight : ;Vi(h- but arms or money, left by his gvein , raent to his own resources, 'he! raised up ah at my by', the energies of ;hut rnighty mind and saved a city Itoioa planvier aud ,r-..':. t Hi' " , ,. ' ' tr' . A fv. If--- m if ' It: v. 1.1 IT. - i : ' I t ' i .. i i. 7 t 4i !! i i y. ;':V., y- i X -'r ,At.i
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