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. ..... " .Uawars'ibr prtrrii. to Hrlik Broths.. -.' I -. - ' - : -r !s ' ' iXI . ' v : THURSDAY, OCTOBER 36,' 1809. ' . -V,. . ? . ... .y-gim . ... s ' . : - . 1 J 1 1 V . ... . , ,1 J . ) I- ' ' . " 1 'l T6 THOMAS JEFFETISOK, uTZ pRESfDRNT OP Tim C-STATES. .,flCTtt&"-"0 The Republitin Citizens of the City twl Couniy of Ncw-Ym k. by their rc 'ution, unmimously pjsscd, at a je- ttn tnettrngf ocicrmin.u i uj toi the hij;h wnse vhith they entena n If tour f rtucs, talents and taluable ser- ,;c$ to our beloved country, together th th' ir fuH approbation ofv the mea sarri pursued 'durinfj your adminisTa iotu By the same resolution, they have rtrered us the organ to communicate tkir lentiratnts to you. i irompljiin wrh this pleasing re. eatst, we alsu think it our duty to state, that c speak our own opinions ind feel as well as those of our fellow Re- pu'ilicans at lare. You, Sir, live in .iir ifection, and in retirement attract the time, and, if posb-ei even supeiior e- notions of Rrttifude, to thoe which! w:re cherished uhile you presided over tie ilTirs of the Union. cit enrfy and eminent n-rtion In tnnrt of American Independence and yocr unvarying attachment to the civil laities of your felbw.cinztns tnt'nlcj rau to their affecrions and esteem. Ad j theegh wr cannot oui oepiore mot me em.rs and the prejudices of party have too frequently exrited unmerited atracics, se are sensible tht a cbncious"ess of rccuunle, together with the apprr.bation and support of Republicans, musthave aJTalcd an inestimable consolation. We rclLXtanily parted with you as Prcslden'. In the difficult situation of tur country, it was hotstly wished to coot rue the aid of your wisdom, cxpe fence and tried integrity. Wr ft It to wards you the affection of a child to a partm, anu ine muiwciii ui wiuc4i v- parauon was pamiui in int exueme. yct:rreaons neverthelMS convtrced us cf the propriety bf your retirement, and the election of your friend as a succei sor produces at this moment our fcrcii- r.n f t ton . Tit th irfrnrir nf nur 2?ernment, we perceive i' to hac been proper that worthyand disinterested ex-1 a.npfcs be prescntea, ana inai 10 pre tcnt hereditary esublishments, our best cm should arad a perpetuity of power. The more wertfl'Ct on tht meaiure tf y ur axlministra ion, especially those vsich have been adopied towards the principal belligerent powers, the more fuHy we discerand understand the pu riy of motive and sound policy which ror'ueed them, and wc principally re prrt tliat any domestic opposition should bite heen made to the just regulation cf alivfcl government, not only intend ed, btt'judiciously adapted o preserve a state of peace, and to maintain the em inestimable rights of ournaMon. Dine Providence has destined our e?Jterce to an extraordinary and in trrvine sta'e of hiim&n uffairs. The meet superficial observer must perccivi- himvcir surrounded by vast and aston-1 i-irg speciaucs. Amomon is no long tr sated wi.h th conquest of a Kingdom cr a Province, but, regardless of the means, it aspires to the dominion of u nirersal Empire. In such a situation, It was not to bt expected that we should entirely escape thoc agitations which convulsed the nations w th whom we hsd established continual habits of in tcrcctirc. Our relaiSus towards the p.reat belligerents rcre too important to each lobe beheld by the oirurs willi o;t sn eye of jealousy. Tu this consi-Ce-at-an we must in a great measure at ttbutc those repeated acts of agression, which have been perpetrated with Uif feient degrees of violence, but without intermtSMon. To keep aloof from tlici prodigious contests, lo culiivate our own resources," an J to enable our country to rn St by its favored situation, until its natural and progressive growth should render it invulnerable to foreign attack, spears to iiave.bcen the great design o' " cur wise and salutary administration. Miny of our cour.lrvmen. svho have tio. rA ,v : 1 . r - ut lucasures oi rovcmmwir. or jn'hhtU from them a firm support, may live to rtrret tKi infiMivinn tri,;i prompted them to violate our laws, and by presenting an appearance of our do mestic weakness, encourage a continu--ce of those injuries, which might 6 tflerwist have been restrained. vVt believe, Sir, that the embsrtro Sc T ...kw, llll.ll Jm-imercourse acta were imnm-f iai in iv.irL . . r. . Tr w,r,aevisedlrom the purest "'iuons ana wise in trurir operati-H They furnished an onnortuiiitv to "end theirftnroba.tion.cn theme 'They prevented inconsiderate' men I (mm plaong their merchandize withjn the reach of inevitable cap'ure. I hey recalled nor mariners from scenes of in suit and Imprisonment to the Uosom o thtir native country. They cuncedto the warrlnc: world, that The U. States, however pacific in disposition, were in capable of submitting to every extremity of injustice. They afforded our own go vernment time to consult the opinions and wishes of the nation, before it con served to encage in more rigorous and decisive measures. They were calcu lated to withhold, and had thcynotbeeu evaded, would have effectually withheld, from foreign aggressors, those supplies, which were necessary to toe perpetu- ance-of thtir own power, appealing to their own interest to restore the free ex crcise of those rights which their pride and passions and Injustice had violated. Witn deference to the better judg ment of those whose experience and superior means of information haye en abied them to torm a more correct o- Dinion. tfe believe that the truly Inde pendent situation of the United States and the nower which .we possess to ! withhold from hostile foreigners sup plies of many articles of the first ne cessity is a valuable weapon in our hands. And although a sup -naiort of intercourse mu produce its inconveni ences, they are incomparably less than those which result fiom incessant in sult .and capture. Patriotism should endure these temporal y privations with fortitude, and we have abundant reason to be thankful to a beneficent Providence for having placed our lot in an extensive and fertile territory, so tbundxjt ia thw production of every essential comfort as to p'eclude the possibility of reil dis tress. We exceedingly regret that un toward circumstances, and an improvi dent opposition have prevented the ef-' fectsof this rational and obvious system Irom being fully ascertained, j . The desolating calaraitiesirticparablr from war, its innumerable distresses, its pernicious effects upon the manners and morals of society, and the dangers with which it assails the duration of free go- vcrnmentsrepowerful dissuasives from entering into such a stale, without the utmost provocation and direful necessity. With regard to ourselves, a warlike di Dosit'on would entail upon Us the most permanently injurious consequences we should be enlisted in all the intrica cirs of Euroftcan connections and alii- ances ; we sh uld be alternately mena ced and intrcated, coerctd and courted, driven or seduced, to destroy our gene ral safety and foifeit our national cba Iractcr of justice, and brc6me habitually eniisteu as a standing pariy. in mc uis- tant contests of the did world. And we fenher, Sir, believe that when the inju rious st stem of warfare is once adopted, that it is beyond the limits of human sa.- city to fertel its ultimate consequen 0 ces; Rut attached as we are to the conti- nunce"Tf peace, and adverse to any European connection, a pacific disposi lion, or any apprcncnsion oi aangcr, would neither occasion timidity, or pro duce the most distant consent to aban don, the natural and national rights of our beloved country, i he spirit oi the revolution is unextinguished, we "shall emulate the virtue a;.d vigour of our forefathers & maintain at every' hazard, the Liberties, Union, and Constitution oPlhe United States, together with the government, of their general choice. That you. Sir, in your chosen retire ment, in the bosom of your fanrly con ncc ions, and in the midst of affection ate' friends, miy enjoy many years of happiness, and that Ihe sweets of do mestic tranquility, may be united to the pleasure of btholding the prosperity of ycrnr country, and the trumph of those principles or civil liberty, in the defence of ?hkb your active das have been so beneficially employed, are .tlve sincere and ferveint wishes, of your friends and feilow citizens. By the general committee of tHe Ci- tr and County of New-iork." ABHAIIAM BLOOQGOOD, Chairm. i JO L) Ail HAMMOND, Secy. . WOHTICELLO, SXPT. 30 1809. The very friendly sentiments which rny Republican fellow-citizens of the ci ty and county of New-York have been pleased to ex press,'' through yourselvei as fhe'ir organ, are highly grateful to me, and command my sincere thanks ; measures itli'thc administration of their affairs, strength ens my hope that they were favorable to the public prosperity. For aoy cr rors which-ivay have been committed theindulgent will find some apology in the difficultles resulting from the extra ordinary state of human affairs, and the astonishing spectacles these have pre sented. A world in arras, and tramp ling on all those moral principles which hay- heretofore been deemed sacred pn the intercourse between nations, could not suffer us to remain insensible of all agitation. .During such a course of lawless violence, it was certainly wise to withdraw ourselves, from all inter course with he belligerent nations, to avoTa the desolating calamities insepa rable from war, its pernicious effects on manners and morals, and the dangers it threatens to free governments ; and to cultivate our own resources until our natural and progressive growth should leavtr til nothing to fear from foreign enterprise. That the Denefits denved from these measures were lessened by an opposition of ihe most ominous cha racier, and that.tbe cont'uiuancv of inju ry was encouraged by the appearance of domestic weakness which that presen .1 - ! I .1.1 ' f i ieu, win aouuuess De a suoject oi ricep and durable regret to such of our well- intentioned citizens as participated in it, under mistaken confidence in men who had other views than the good of their own country. Should foreign nations however, deceived by this appearance X)f division and weakness render it ne cessary to vindicate by amis the inju ries 10 our coun ry, 1 believe wicn you that the spirit of the revolution is unex (intruished, and that the cultivators of peace will again, as on rhat occasion, be transformed at once into a nation of war riors, who will leave us no'hing to fear for the natural and national rights of our country. . , Youra;probation of the reasons tfhich induced me to retire from the honora ble station in which my fellowvcitizens had placed me, is a proof of your devu tion to the true principles of our con stitution. These are wisely opposed to all perpetuations of power, and to eve ry practice which may lead to heredita ry establishments ; and certain I am hat any tervises which I could hive rendered will be. more than supplied by the Wisdom and Virtues ot my succes sor. I am rery thankful for the kind wish es you express for my personal hajpi ness, Jt will always be intimately con nected with the prosperity of our coun try, of which I sincerely pray that my fellow-citizens of the city and county of New-York may have their full parti cipation. TH : JEFFERSON. Messrs. Bloodgood & Hammond. SITUATION o ENGLAND. The following remarks, copied from a lion don paper called the Staietman, are worthy of notice. The various Quixottic Expedi tions of the British Government are spoken of in a nUnner which, no doubt, every un prejudiced person in th' ' country will think they deserve. . We have at length arrived precisely at that point of failure and disaster which has long been foreseen by such as chosr to exercise their understandings Our Expedition to the Scheldt veiurni to Englandunsuccessful. Our gallant army in the Peninsula indignantly re tires before superior numbers ; and Is chia and Procida, in the IJay 0I Naples, are evacuated by Sir John Stuart. - Thus have failed all our Expedites ; and the efforts (we blush to use th i erm) of England have had no more in fluence on the contest in Germany, than the Piotest and excommunications of the ci devant Pope, now reduced to his pastori and pristine simplicity of cha racter, a mere Bishop I Of those who weakly avert their eyes from that on which they dread to Took, who prefer the fabrications the falacies, ihe, delu sions, the contradictions, 'the absurdities of the Nabob s Morning Fost,r the Times, the Courier, and the whole-tribe of hireling?, we implore their 'attention to the real state to which England is at last reduced. Observation, applicable J to the affairs of common life, are not less so to those or nations, and we aU know, that when an individual refuses to examine his real, situation," destruc tion inTari ably follows." England,, In extent of surface and in population infe rior, but in point of actual power, pos ecssing as nccocsj wc ocean, w xut, certainly' U superior to even the colossal power of f ranceattet having goaded that king- uuiii, iu war, nas aoso;uieiy iaiiea in every effort to restrain ner power, and it is no longer possible to doubt that Na poleon now) reigns paramount over the entire conthient of EtrVope. Peafce'with Austria can no longer be doubtful. In the prospect of this event we. certainly feel satisfaction, from our . firm convic tion that the renewal of hostilities would have led, and that most speedily to the extinction of the Austrian Monarchy. Whatever may be the delusive expecta . tiens of the impossibility of restraining commercethe crisis js approaching with accelerated velocity in which s the continenr of Europe, as to our com merce, will be hermetically sealed.-r Then, and not till then, will the people of England be taught, that a too widely extended commerce canrjbt confer per manent power on any nation. The con test in which England is now strug gling, is specifically a war for com mere?. Dp ws approach ihe subject fur; which We drew tbt Sword ? Is that ohjecti in the belief of any roan of ordi nary understanding, now attainable bv tht farther! efforts of England? We hae pejstfVered until Napolsoh has sur rounded, himself, as Mr. Sh-M ."dan'most truly observed,, with. thrones." fie has vionarhs for his centmels. . They a tixed, iminovably fixed ; and Louis on tqthat peace which she wantonly broke, and there can be no possible conse quences resulting from peace which may ndt be .anticipated by a coniinu anceofwarj Napoleon .will acquire ships, com merce, and: colonies ; and suppose he does, is pot. the world wide enough for ui all f Is jit. possible, that an Island in the western part of Europe shall be able to permanently maintain the monopoly, against which not only France but also all Europe is contending Vain hope 1 Because we have spent some hundred nillionsin pr, nothing will do but that those whom we cannot subdue, shall contribute to pay their shares of our ex penditure. That in fact is the state of the case. ,We owe 700 mil-ions, how can wc pay. the interest W'lhout trade, and how tan w.e have trade if we make Peace 2" Tf this we would simply ask," What trade will you have in twelve months if thje war is hot terminated 2 Where are we to fight next ? Suppose the Isles ofjFrance and B nrbon in the East and Gu&dalooe in the West1 In- dies, ro b- ir pur possessionthat even all intercourse between Asia America, and Africa shall be interdicted to th. Continent of Europe Will that inter diction "diminish the power of Napoleon and his tributary Emperors and Kings ? The hope is; vain. England has always been formidableand is now .more c a- paDie ot atencing nerseii agjinst any effort that riay be made by Nipoleon. than she wr in the rein of Elizabeth. The power 'and military repu ation of Spain at tha(t period bore a strong re semblance to that of France at this mo ment. No-hine: so. certainly tends to consolidate, j invigorate and extend the power oi rajice as war, ana noinmg would so certainly dispose her people, to a permanent peace, as ships, colonies aod,commerte. .. . To the. list of European Monarchal is to be added Alexahdcr.v Berthier, who, from Prince' of Neufchatel, it appears, is destined byNapoledn to reigrn over the couquyrhen of WilUam 'wii I and the once free Republicans of Holland apd of Switzerland, may now exclaim, Tempora1 mutantur-et nos imutamer in illis. England herself now stands on a precipice, more imminently dangerous than any to the brink of which she has ever yet been driven by her minister, or bylier passionsand nothing but the voice of the people-IbtfJly, irresistibly expressed, can save her J ?; It was reported in the off. yesterday, that government .had acceded to a pro rwsitidnfrqni France and Austria, to send an. Ambassador to a Congress, to' be field for the purpose of neg ciating a general pece.- Lord $t, , Helens was said to be. actually nominated ' for this I purpose. The report excited a consi- II lerah! sensatinn in the -ritv. anr!"rpp- II haps had its origin in some stock-jebbing sutwuuuuu, ; :- . . i . A most lmprooauic rumour is current i on ! the - Continent, that the -ArcnouKe Cbarlcs was tp be engaged on a mi$sloni to themrbxAfoii9iderto;-ftpzcrJ i.chjj, juoi.nini, i.. pics,-i.u leges,- for which they har1 fought and 1 1 Joseph in Sim, will, in spite of all our biefi Rnt .rh m, tWi '-. T ' i. C L . I J i i l : . XT 4 J II . effirts reign where Napoleon has pi a- turned, thousands', to participate; in . ced them. Ei.land must at last return ,he blessings of a vernmectlthe esta. that potentate of the i?angerof his i tuation, from his subservience tbBona parte, and of the necisiif of hjs join ing in the contmon catre of Germany, to resist the encroachmentsiitNapoleon, wno was endeavonnetb extend bis em pire from the White Sea 4o the Eastefn bhores of the Mediterranean " Prvn The StrehM oTtke Peoblc? 7 ' (4 aew RepabUcu piper, poblufcd i Chwlelldhi . C.t ,TO THE AsIERIckK TORIES. v Nothing could have added more ta. that felicity, vbich thejresolt of t he War had a tendency to yield, to those wKa had achieved it, (tjijftr perpcaiiQn'uf your exilefnent froni among them. J$of could any circurnstane'ehave added more alloy tothe happiness; of the war-worn, soldier of menca, wpen he retucned to the walks of peace; and sat himself-dovrri under his vine and fig-tree, than to see , the hostile lory jerijoyiDg the same hap-4 piness by his side. 'A;n6V6rvWii&';' politic, or cohsislent with r the 'Mcnvtoi lent principles of republicanism, tbisfin d uigfenee to your party might havebeeh l yet such had been hd prTing irritating nafure-cf your crixnes, aJainst: those who had borne the burdtn Zf the;' war, , that it certainly was a dediicjiort from the value of their -re wardYto see you enjoy an equarsaare o tnoee pnvt- bltshment of which you had opposed to tne extent ot you r p ,ver. r: J ' , t To prove this fact,, which isnecessaV ry to my purpose, 1 1 will , instance the " case of South-Carolina. The ' Legisla ture)f this State, held at Jacksoribow) rough, in the beginning Qf the- year-! 1732, passed laws . for confiscating theft estateii and banishing the persons of the active decided Xriends pf therjtia? go vernment. Two are4'.;'j;ilrtjr seven persons, or estaies, twere : ir this . class ( 1 ) of whose namesV t bVe jv list to the number of one hundred. anH sixty-three, taken from' the journals of: that assembly. I hey i were ( banished from the State, to his Briiannic Mjes ' ty's. cruminions, under the penalty of : death, without the benefit of clergy,' 1 should they ever return. "Ye these ve ry men are: Here among" xtt andi some v of them, are to be seen .every dajr in . Charleston. . Subuent Legislatrirei repealed the banishment Uws aQdper? t mitted them to return ; which, they did, and are now to be fouijdar) almjost every, oart of the S .ate. Thes. with all others. ,. 0f your. party, that I hve bad an oppprir " ttioity of Jmowih&'WtfVcked 'the uncouth name ot tory, lor the more gen. t!eabddeeetftitetidr9:bfTedeTaii; uu, 1 der which garb, you impudently, dare to vindicate the cause, for, Whichi twenty : seven years ago, many j-f you, by thfc;: 1 ' Uws of this state, Werei Condi tibnallyi - ' sentenced to the gallows;-$hri If then, so;,mny of ther numbeVrthul?: rigorously dtaltVvithr were meaneTnough to accept pf? the ir lives, ,arrd impudent- " erwugh to net themselves doin, ambn . tfie people who. had condemned ;.thgjiv there remains nSt a doubt "of thousands less delicately .situated, harctiirhetl; into every statin the umo VIli1act, L k'now hundreds, in Georgia, in this State, and severat in the cityi who vpluritarily Wehtaway with 4hV British j and; at dif ferept after pVfiods returned,: arid' were, admitted to all the priyileges; of citizen- priTUegesi ship. These are facts, that ere well known to every man who resided in A-r - ' merica, in, and sine, thejvar ;'aud waS.' at that time', of a proper age totake no tice of t he passing, ey eijts toiyisni formed one, of the. most, prbmioetsa( tures of tuatmemorable cpbch . .Haying esta&HsjiedllhWpotx Vill? noWexamine youV conducr,SceyouVv " return, and ikQfirHi ' , requited the ; courtesy tht by thtsVcta. try, has been so-generously extended to. you ; oot only in sparing ydu.r. f orteited. , , live, hiit in niacins voir Unon ancrm'aL footing; with btx rootle deseiving,, andl ' favored, citizens. e. Never ws' there urti oppoj (unity for a display of grati v tuder - ln anvsetof berbiR. ihaa.wakhere! '.V-r ugcred to your pirty;- And never wasTv one so erossfy, abused. Americahad 1 i - i If . a " T T ' . . .; no oonerslwken off the shackles which: . 1 ; in nmhin4t lrtniM!ti -U '- ' io nvci -uu ficif juuiainra inai inae - . - 0 pendence xor wnicn alone she had been. 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