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' .v.; ; - v , ;t -(."' v;-ti ' ' - -.? .i I, .," ; '17 ,f ii i .I. ii , I, .. tl- :?j'S'iiV Front the Charleston Cbariefi ' ' Og thc fiff',of:Noybcrjj'8oywIie Vs taken by the , iripojitans, and three !iuiv ' tired ct her crew loaded with chains, m 'f unwbolelQme dungeons., Oie feeling V obAmericns for that horrible event may l:ave evaporated, and left the heart chilt , t into icy Tjegieai fcutinetecoiieciion -r' of it c mnot well have been baniSied.- J he fcalations which u exaiedat the ' i'. time, wpre very .ditfsrcnt frottt thofe n"'-.vhicb Iseni now to pervade our peoplii i bey tnen telt it as tney Jhouid do rfe't ; ;,;'-v it 25 men, confefling the rights cf huina-'-'4 lMty-2$ Americans boaftfulof their free; - lom, and glorying in that of their fellow " . creatures, of every country u here free com coma oe loana a rciiow-atizensi 1 - fcorror-lfnick at the barbarities exercifed v' " upon toeir fellowj, and indignant of the v - inonffers who exertifed them f-and, irt ' a word, a fat hen, fon$y -brethers, and '". friends, lympathifmg for' all who flood iathole relations to the unhappy captiyej. ' 'i'hff nrwf' the env nf flv! Urns fitynol - -i he feeling run, like elcciricflued, from - - y - , ""O I - 4ill.ige,to hamlet, imd front thofe back .r eainto th city.- Even Avarice found herfelf hurled by the lubduing hand 6 pity from her fiUh-erecledihrbnein the heart, and robbed tor a' time of her do ihiiiion.': ' !ri every part of the Union the hand of IVmnfy wat Opened, -an J an t in- v fiienle Jybfcription protnlfed "to relieve our unhappy fellow -ciuzens fTdrn'their " anguifii, and fpeediTy to relfore them to jiberty, (the Ufe blood of their fouls) to , air; l comfprt, to Jby 6 America- , U to ihe embracei of iheir fond, mourn, i v; , Jng coruiecUons But policy chilled the X: tmhl current ere it trickled from ihe ' ' iounfain. Government more wife, ' jorefawevil arifiog from it. ' 'The Srdeat, : t;;ncrpus anxiety of the people of Ame t rica to hava their fel!Qw.citi2eru reftored l.a xheen ('twas fug'gefledj would taife J . ine demandi of the Tuiliin robbers cf iiarharyj and immodenttelyinSame their 4 ' -termtotranfom. vi f he noble defigo wa' 'fliSed in the birth, and pofitive prorniles ' -were made, that proper raealure$ wotild -,'be taken by-th Execfttive to obtara the liberation of thife mifcrablenien. -. Tl:e ctrcumltaniei of captivity in Tri poli, or any of thole Africatt Stated, tan icitcety-' be conceived by the"5eople" of c - "thii'countf jr. There was .a time when ' captivity, in th ordinary mode of ufage : amonp; poliflied naiions, would of itfelf ; Jraile the pity and. indignation cf a trutf American, to an ex'quilite pitch of fuf. fering. 'Yet fuch, captivity, whencorn pared with that -our, countrymen,' have rfendured,' would be "paradiflcal enjoy. tntnr. s; Dungeons damp arid darky fcan-T-:ty food of bread and wafers' chain eat "ling into tjtcflf boncltripes and labour of the hardeil. kind,: dragging logs of X-v,:, wood and other things like the meaneft 'beafb of. burthen with the bow-ftting , :v-xteady to puoifliahy fault which tyranny, " ' r i.it Ifalntl STlA. ri1rtn?ti&. ;ran -nnftrn ijy:tnto reltivenefs alltheleare thefuffep . ; fuch fufferings, nay, for an hoiir,' a Br!-. . ? ; tun jury wouia awaraa common indivi f ; , , . , rdual damages to uppbn him comfotta-; - - : bry for life : ,;for to a. tender. fejing pef f; r'y-' fop and high' niind,; the wrongs of one i Vta, offucWndignity and hardfhip would ' "Who that has a heart fir f o b telr for. tn bear with any patience thereSeiiUon pf eyen one innocent ieilow Creature enqur. ; ' ing fuch f ufferinps though but fqr , 'a :. w eek i Jufferings beneath w hich the mo 11 o Uurdy. bodily itrengih .malt, bow, ' the ly moll viporous fmk to the earth, the flame ;,of life jrfelf expire ; and Worfe thari all; . "i- the mind be broken down from the high "'towering pride of that laudable felf ef : teem Which generates the living princi--- pits of freedom & independence in man, - and has ol ten bid the moft humble rile !from the dull: pf pppiellion to trample tipon the heck cf tyranny.- One fellow ; rea?ure )o fulfering even for;afoweek i horrible! Do you not feel thus fellow .citizens i It you do -not, . refign your to etenfions to manhood;i' Jf you do, let: -uuic jvur uzwi to every pang wpicn pi - -fyxart tnflk"l re thrhole length of the reigns to your .imagmation ' ..and if '-. ou caa-foroi a coneeptioa adequate to luch a pictyre feel, .while in imaginati. - : i'x I" V 4 r h I on ' you- Turyey Tjiaiiit ' ittiytbibVdl your countrymen, 'of your fellow-ciea. tures, . bending beneath the, .weiht, of SIXTY-ONF VlXVlti nt fnrh fn!r.r t Trk- verty,t emaciation; and dileafe piftured m tneir perions J the ebapels rted forrow in their cheeks qjogged with the fait of their tnr thMK nnw Viroomw limbs tottering under the little weighC of tucii . wuin qarcaies ; mna iiurnugnjnc rdy wmcii exen ine outline or tne piece, the Barbarians ftripes -iipon their halt aivcu uucs, .vuiuic, ana caiung out ior Yeruteanctf." . ,v '' V:-; w t ek if have you r brave a.fld worth y fef lowKi2.ens, your friends, your brothet $7 your fons; been lahsuflhitiiir in this con. dition. while Voiir rountrv iinflincl its Uown to ihecat-anl-pan game of pe-, "uiuuj, uiiatsiui ctuuoiuy, aim u tweenit,"and hitherto abortive miliut blufler leaves .them to fink, to rot, t perifli t ito cuti'e the davrha't brniicrht them 'forth to life", and did 'not bnn them forth under Cim mow faff-: fami more propitious fun1 than that of Ame. nca a fun indeed once blazing bright, "-when in the meridian of Federal fer.. VOuf if clowed. raftin a Inllri nnAn thtf land, and fSUnor jt with comfort t but uuw,- in my C4rif winter nonnpoie eveiiing;. finking , put of fighf amldfl clouds, and Eeet. and fnnw. an.i all iKe elemental fmut of a dark;' thillixi3, ,life- lels democratic. nnhpolc tkSKt--.l V ?VVreare roldhvfnvprnmnf that tVttnJ modore 1rebl, having bombartU'd Tripoli,' the barbarian Bathaw fias offer? ed to releafeourtountrymen for 500,00a dollars.- To thi nrorwiial thpri- n,-a ktif the alternative of two antwers to be gi- viuitiji wiui ii or reime iQEJTe any thing. Ilumamty reiahtprompt thS rorier: iniin i iviiirv. mt iro. and rh-u now never occurs to ou wife pouticians) national nondurifwn it Jmanfifi the 1aua . Our government did neithety They bflered' 15000 dollajs...B.uf, to ieave bur couiitrymen in fach a cocu!ii tsfu to ara;ttha of4 a hnfc hare .-.i " ahucklv. y about a few'dollars, inglori- uua. ndj, iKnoiiuaious to a nation, is a proceediri for Janguage to delcribe our fenfeot which, wefhould in vain ranfarlc the ftores of ancient & modern eloqence, ,or even look fpr with hope to find It in ine rancuut ana teryia regions Ot poetry.. If three flilndrd Ammirsnt irM K left to nerifh in the dnnwhn tt RarKarL' ansi Jet it be not for tlie yile peculium ct to many cloiiarijai on calcu lanon would h r-rart! frvm -rr a ht-i.i tn the population of the Uwon 1 but let it' be for the tlory of their country' ': ' If to they die; they,, di well f then let" our iliips lav Tripoji in1 a heap bf ruin and coQibtlHiou a monument - glonous to them and to their country; and for ever admonitory tot barbarian opprtHors and .fobbetsv.-';"s,'- ,. 'y).-.- K-. for out parts,-we do trot he5tate to lay that the latter is the meafare which H.C ftiould think ad vifable; Britooshave been known to blow nr thrir (him an4 themfelves with them, rather than be tuken 1, and have feqaenrly; when pri- fonerson board an enemv'i fliin by the Eiig'iih; b?cn known to pray that l tarn . ine m jgnt hp to tne bottom at mi along wiihherj for the honour of Old England. It ir the feed of thbfe Britons u?ba now drag chains inTripoli thtf -fame fpifit Dons in.tneir veins, and We dare to lay that they feci as we fed, and that It they were afked, mark this, the alternative, ? lhaU your country huckftetdimortour ably, or fhall our Ihip lay Tripoli in afhes, which do yoa chofe ?' they would without hesitation fay, levels level the vile city with the earth, and ief us lie gloriocfly beneath its ruins." At! this time, one thing appears; !and Indeed with no very promifinR afpecl. In the fitioke of thp minlfUflsl kM4 fir by which the ricople arefo blinded, the itare ortne captives te ems to be Jolt to the oublic fichri .'l ime, whirh H(ftrnvt - - J . " uvm v J w - all thmg, Tvjems to have either difiipated, j ur cmucijr cAwiisuittica inoic leeungs which at the time- of the propoled fub fcripdotj.t didthem fo much hohbur Perhaps as they gfbw reconciled ttf the lofs and captlvi tjof their countrjmei, they think "their" captire countrymen have become cordinatety reconciled to their,; fjinering Jr-or, knowing the ef fefkof cttftom in familiarifing meato ihingJiowcyer pamfil,tmayVayVci 'T3o v-Tj long accu'ltdmed, to ft hat thejr ; i,-' Aj fbe pockne'y faid to an Irinmar ll f .Vuas rwi thf nnVntrtf If fin Anf uiitK hira from the' AVt Dnp at" the pid Baiky la tha othe -world.? "'and' who, 'ahpered kthii ufilfknirrjcvsrwhijiing:' 'bia :tidf ft .s x xe a man: -Ah J carle, you-- t rfS ihifTjr6u' are .: 'ufed to if j'So,' vei !faps this country may fay to the crew: i re, and be ftrappejyou Yankee Dogs -r-vou are now ufed taju' , ..' " il'i - ' 51 h Jrow Ar Fretferici'Teivn KtraM.-n V,'miiOT4r, Tc t4i ltOi. r '"The bill. to recmlatft frh rkihtirt cf irrhlidlnercliant; :vflelt fomeiime uace reponed . to the noule M a lelett Comimttce,- and'' committed to."a corn tnirtsator .tile whole houfe i cilculled. Imendedj'teporfed agaln: te thehoufe - , . , 1 --i - -cuIied. Bt?am amended, re recoinraiftPti- a'jail reported, again difcufled and again a;3engea nas at lennn naned tne noute. ; I he accuracy of this bill' the faund"- Jicl'safiumdoles'ahd the iuftnefs of ifi teaal Lmfrions: ran Ivff he vindir.if. t J by 4)jaLicttl applicatiou and expcii tnrt,. y-iy'z : 'Ji:i. ' " Supnofe then a trofecution for an of. fence pf the hiKhefVgtade contemplated I y the fecond fedion of the till; and an arraignment in form at the bar of apro rer tribunal for Irial, v';' , ? The fhip feace and Plenty rf New jcirk, is the offender. - V The C!lrkftFihmurf arfT!rTiIm- f If to the prifoner fays Ship Peace anil 'ail i wtu juur lit'' nana. ,, s I Ieatke n to an indicf man found agaicft ' fy the grand inqueft. ; 1 hen reads: 1 he iurors cf tle United States from theboJy of the diihict tt ,y trginja on their bathts and aflirmations prelcnt, that fhi0 Peaceand INenty, pf thecityind ft ate ofrNewYork bejn?; an arpied merchant veflel, on the fourth day of March, inthe year one thoufand eight hundred and five, at a place called the High Seas,' in the dlftria afordaidv, not having the fear of flmperor bctore her eyes : but bejng nwved ty the infiiga titT.1 of raaa. trader did make and commit deprecation,, and other unlaw, iul ufe of aun8.,agairi(t a certain Corfi can lugger called the pacificsqar,- then and there being in amity with the Uni ted States jagainil the peace and digni y of tbe faid Uhed States, and thelaw in fuch. cafe madeand provided ' 5 i ;--A true bil. :; Foreman. U ' 1 be clerk then addtefrmg' himfelf to' the prifoner fays Ship Peace & Plenty, -whai fat VOU to thin irkKftrruTir i- nre yod guilty or not guilty f ; t w.winvu vjuchiuii mc pruuner max- ethnoanfwer, although the fame qucf-1 tion is. at three feveral times.- nrononnd. . . ' 1 m r " ed toher. ? ' -'' . -? AVhereapfi, and becu(e the faiff fhip Peace and Plenty" ftandeth mure, the court; of cbanfel for the prifoner defir ou tharits judgment mould not be fotnided folelv on hef irhnliVrt rprpceed to examine the officers and men. wno were on Doarct tne laid thip at th time the faid depredation'and other un-: lawful ufe of aims Were commirted by heTi: touching: the fame,' And th faid" officers and men haying teftifi$d,''"'that the faid fhip, .beingttackd bjr-certain freebooters on board lieKel bearing mc i;icm.u uuk, um uavuig o autnort ty'under the French governmerit, they the faid officers and men for the defence of thelf lives and propertyj'did.Hjy force, fefifl the ai4 freebooters, Jand drive them away , . - , , ' " It is thetefore confidered by the court, that thefaid fhip Peace and Plenty is guil ty o murder. ; ' , And now the attornev olrneral mnteiTi to the court, that fentence of death be paued on the prifoner according to law. The eftlirt aiMtv.fi th nrfnrtt-r tnA ft. rkveTouan-thinyi tobir why fen I tence of deatUliould not be pafled Up .? ott you ,The fhip Peace and" Plenty Hand cohvIcied oAV.e tel'lfmonvof.- t wimeiTtV as well as by ycrur own coA' , feflion,'bf th'eheinbus 'crhne of muf- t 4 oerf cpmmured on the 'high '-wii- agap II the law ef the land ' an d the fentence cohfeqiient bnftich coviaioii' awaits yoii VVe cnnbr but otfervjS . "by way ot.'caation. vihat this rcltL-'s, ' " enterprifing fpirit for cartti' J, on Loe hade., fn hnftvlero ih -it -f L- , r I " itt rcveRue'anrf fh tul' - e iVmrtiVJ dual, wealth, ought not i .1 t!:e lealtro 7 De indiiicTTl hvnnt vpilfl r f f lTn.fp,f (' " V I - WIV. : vjiaits, siuy iizc, irorn iiuit s i ..c . to Merrhanf fihin n rir.-it(. 1 Sorry.arewe to lay,. tLt (his pirit al " feady, too iirongly marks the' charac " ter of, American vellLLi. " i ou win now hearfcentd the Jolemil fenfence fVhirh thf' rmiTt Amh in if. I Ji. ' . TY ' . ''.!'. ... ' . ygu-T-uaving coruiaureu or TOUT Clfene.. the rruirr nrArr. thnt mil . . J fhip Peace and Plenty be taken iron2 f ucacc to im (p;ace . w neace you came ? ,. ,aiid frpra thnce,;;on the ftrit day of April tnextf between the hour .of -"twelve and three,, to the , Dry Dick'? : the place of execution, and there be . hanged by lbs neck, u?til yiU are dead ' ueaa-ceaci. .:; Jc1 r r J r 'v 'klsiitt tlx titan alt" V V UUtfn on Drr Creek, in Chu hm A... Uarei kt th Ini r.r; r r .... . dollan the Seafua ,tw io!:.- the ( ni . tor miuunce, the mowy to bt piJoo or btForo ' the ,a day of J,nu.aryk fa w.-h ,. . . . j Uken liwn tho'c Pot hvir y. J.tnti.: luitooJ, f?co.ri7 will be htjui'ed ; hj di kp, tb ma.,t . . ' ' - to be pwd it lh Rihle door. . ' I . f ' This Hjffe. Wfcme of th Vml in ,r teemed correft'y made j h U prrdi of j feot - ' Kijh, remarkabjy flroj and &re a dark chtt nat colour, wll marked.' " " - SULTAN wa jot ky Colon, whofe ptdwrc9 wwBeeiflarjtdreMpHularea he it clt lnon to be of the Sift bfooj ia ibi countryt ha'-' got fame of ke farted horfei ia it Su'tm dan ' u ltih blooded t hi wu Imported into Wilming- ". kreke down her tirff trtkl ;flie la targe and . well made, od ia to be feeo with the HorVa f-e fuljferiber keepi ter f r brced.ng. - 4. - : ShoU'd the price for the Sea (bo and tpruraoeV be paid by the fab j( ovenber, h day U diC charged in Cora ai iruket price,. - ' , t' ?- The fubferiber wUI not hold Limfclf iTabfe for iof ccidenti h4teer, but hb will Lara alt pof fible care uken of ihrlfare.; Good pa(lurager e1 fenced, eratia '.ni the Marva (rA ai! if required, at the ufual met. ' ' - , ' , . t-tiKL.fc.S LUTTERLOIL - Drj Cri l,Chflat County,! v ' ' LL perfona tudebted to the late t rrfa 6f j f v ' . J- 1 .. ' 'ia, "l .. ; making no reply.f 'f ho-fourt thus ceedrou fhip Peai& Plenty, pro now BvcHAHaii. Dcrato.ft CrJ. nirrr. burgRoaitT' PoLto'g, fi6..T. of Rich! 4 mond.'.aod DKtoi Pffifcon,' ft C. of 1 Maaclvlltr 't hereby notified, that iHt Ooi.o, late a partber ia the abore coocerne ; , ha bccoapTirtljarei' of art the. otlt-ftaodina; fleKtY'thet will therefore be pWfed trj iaVe -jjaymeot to MrJok fof lilia,- reBdlR? in ? Rt4hmoadi or thefulirciibtr. rcJliinof i In Pi tei Sb'jrg . who lne re, wihorHid 16 make riV.X7 U ' f I collect tooe and fti'aat discharge. Sulfa avail be - " i -; iadifcriminatery coriiitienced agamft all who fai&k??? C 'Ml noX make paTtfient. before tLe firft di of Te,." l' :.- 1 'CV broar Bext.-i 1 ' ' T-s V'' - " :? V' I N ' J1"-, 3. r.W ' ;.t J. ...i ! i .' almanack; - 'Is mst Published. .'y And for Sale by ihe Thousand; C'ruc At ttftir hloUng'-Oitiojirt (Uleigk ft Hli&, ina',V the Store M Axitlrftio. MihMi'u l. r. r,.. ; . Andrn, Hojj It Mm?, Iv.epli tnitli. Duntsa M'La. ran, 0. M R, Fiyne.-ille,' Mr. G. Hanki. Air , rough Meiifs. 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