-ego, a co
' humble servit,
Fromthc Virginia Frec'1’rcss_. Nam 17-
THE OLDEN TIME» .
A friend placed in our hands, a few (lay:
py ofthe ‘Pennsylvantti Gazelle:
adelphia, Oct. 4th, 1775.
of Gen. Washing-
It is printed on a
published in Phil
found among the papets
ion, at. Mount Vernon. _ V
sheet of dam)’. Vt’-')”lli‘l". l"“'E"" ‘"3" ‘f°'"'
mo“ W,-ping paper ; and is almost entirely
filled with Gen. Gage's account ofthe ‘ at-‘
tack of we redoubrs and entreticliments oq
the heights of Charlestown,.Iuue 17, 177-5.
and details of-the events connected with
our revolutionary strugglt.‘»- The f“°5l "l‘
teresting reminrscerice,however,is a cor-
rospondence bet\veenGen.VVa=lrtngton and
Gen, Gage. The letters of our revered
chieftain exhibit an eloquence and true po-
liteness which a good heart and it good
cause will always inspire. Vlfe are sure
our readers will peruse them with feelings
» , ofpride and veneratiou tor the character of
a man who seemed destined by Heaven for
deeds of glory and greatness. ’
[The f‘-allowing letters are published by
order ofthe Hon. Continental Congress]
. HeAo Q,U.-\R'I‘ERS, j
Cambridge, August 11, 1775.
Sir: I uiiderstand that the officers on-
gaged in the cause of Liberty and their
country, who by the fortune of war have
fallen into your hands, have been thrown
indiscriminately into a common gaol, ap-
propriated for felons; that no considera-
tion has been had for those ofthe most re-
spectable rank, when languishing with
wounds and sickness-—that some of them
have been even amputated in this urrwor-
thy situation. ‘
Let your opinion, sir, ofthe principle
itvhlcii actttates them be what it may, they
suppose they act from the noblest of all
principles, a love of freedom and their
-country. But political opinion, I cnncive,
are foreign to this point.
claims of rank, are universally binding and
e.vtensive(except in cases ofretaliation.)——
These, I should_have hoped, would have
dictated a more tender treatment of those
individuals, whom chance of war had ptit
in your power, Nor can I forbear suggest-
ing its fatal tendency to widen that utiliap-
py breach, which you, and those ministers
tinder whom you act, have repeatedly de-
clzirerl your wish to see forever closed.
My duty now makes it necessary to ap-
prise you, that for the future I shall regu-
late my conduct towards those gentlemen,
‘who are, or may be in our possession, ex-
actly by the rule youslt'.tllobscrve towards
these ofnurs,'now in your custody.
If severity and hardship mark the line
of your conduct (painful as itmay be to me}
your prisoner will its effects. Butif kind-
ness aud humanity are shown to ours, I
shall yritlr pleasure consider those in our
hands only as unfortunate, and they shall
r7eceive from me that treatment to which
the unfortunate are ever entitled.
I beg to he favnurml with an answer as
soon as possible, and am, sir, your very
GEORGE \VAsn1.\'o't on.
His Excellency Gen. Gage.
Boston, Aug. 13, 1775.
Sir: To the glory of civilized nations,
A humanity and war have been compatible;
and compassion to the subdued is become
almost a general system.
Britons, ever pre-eminent irt mercy,
have outgone coninronlexamples, and over-
looked the criminal in the captive. Upon
‘these principles, your prisoners, whose
‘lives by the laws of the land are destined
to the ‘cord, have,hitherto',been treated
-,-,.-pli care and kindness, and more comfort-
ably lodged than the King’s troops in the
hospitals ;- itidiscrintiiiately, it isltrue, for I
acknowledge tio tank that is not derived
from the King.
Allly intelligence front your army would
justify severe recrimination. I understand
‘there ate some of the King's subjects,
taken sonre time since by the rebels, labor-
ing like negro slaves to gain their daily
subsistence, or reduced to the wretched al-
-ternativo to perish by famine or take arms
against theirKing and country. Those who
have made the treatment of the prisoners
in my hands, or your other friends in Bus-
ton, a pretence for such measures, found
barbarity upon falsehood.
I would willingly hope,sir. that the sen-
timents ofliberality, whichl have always
believed you to possess, will be exert-
ed to correct these misdoings. Be
temperate in political disqusition; give free
operation to truth, and punish those who
deceive and misrepresent,and not only the
effects but the causes of this uirhapy coir-
flict will be removed.
Should those, under whose usurped au-
thority you act, control such a dipositioti,
and dare to call severity retaliation, toGod,
who knows all liearts,be the appealfor the
dreadful consequences. I trust that Brit-
ish soldiers, asserting the right ofthe State,
the laws ofthe land, the being ofcoristitu-
tion, will meet all events wi-h becoming
fortitude. They will court victory with the
spirit their cause inspires,and from thence
the same motive will find the patience of
martyrs under misfortune.
Till I read your insinuations in regard to
ministers,I conceived that Ihad acted un-
der the King; whose wishes, it is true, as
well as those of his ministers, and of everv
honest man, have been to see this unhappy
breach forever closed; but unfortunately
for both countries, those, who long since
projected the present crisis, and influence
the councils of America, have views very
distant from accommodation.
I am, ‘sir, your most obedient humble
5°'V?""t THOMAS GAGE.
Ge0rge_lVashington, Esq, ‘ ‘ 0
HEAD QuAnT1-ms,
Cambridge, Aug. 19. 1775. I
.Sir:—.-I addrescd you on the eleventh
instant in terms which gave the fairest
The obligations.
arising from the rights of humanity and
' scope for the exercise ofthat humanity and
politeness which«were.supposedto form it
part of your character. I retnonstrated
with you on the unworthy treatrneirt sliowtr
to the officers and citizens of America,
whom the fortune of war, chance, or a mis-
taken confidence, had thrown into your
hands.
Whether British or American triercy,
fortitude, and patience are most pre-eiui-
rrent——wlretlier our virtuous citiz.etrs,wliom
the hand oftyranny-has forced into arms
to defend their wives, their children, and
theirproperty, or the "mercenary instru-
rnents»o~f;lawlt-.ss domination, avarice and
revenge, best deserve the appellation of
rebels, and the puiirshrnent of that cord,
wh. your aft'r.-ctcd clemency has forehornv
to inflict; whether the authority under
which I act is usurpe-l,orfuuuded upon the
_renuine principles of liberty, were alto-
gether fureign to the subject. I purposely
avoided all ’ political disquisitiorr ; nor
shallfnow avail myself of those advantages,
which the sacred cause of my country, of
liberty, and human nature, gives me over
you, rtiuclr less shall I sioop to retort an
invective. But the irrtelligettce you say you
have received from cur army requires :r
reply. I have taken tirue,sir, to make a
strict inquiry, and find that it has not the
least foundation in truth. Not only your
oflicers and soldiers have been treated with
a tenderness due to fellow citizeiis and
brethren, btrt even tlitne e.\'ecr'.iblc partr-
cides, Whose councils and aid have delug-
ed tlieii" country with blood, have been pro-
tected from the fttry of a justly enraged
people. Far front conrpt-lltng or permit-
iiig their a~sistance, I am t’I]|I]5lI’l llS~.€[I with
the numbers who crowd to our camp, atti-
mated with the purest principles of virtue,
and love of their country. You advise me
to give free operation to truth, to punish
misrepresentation and falsehood. If expe-
rience stamps value upon counsel, yours
must have a weight which few can claim.
You best can tell how far the convulsion,
which has brought such min on both couri-
rain to its foundation, may be traced to
tltvse malignant causes.
You all}-ct,sir, to tlespi-‘e all rank, not
derived from the same source with your
own. I cannot conceive one more lion-
orable thau that which flows from the uti-
corruptcd choice ofa brave and free people,
the purest source and original fottntain of
all power. Far from making it a plea for
cruelty, a mind oftrtie magnanimity' and
enlarged ideas would compreliend and re-
spect it.
What may have been the niiiristerial
views which have precipitated the ptescnt
crisis, Lexington, Concord, and Cliat‘les-
town, cart host declare. May that Gutl,'t)
whom you then apppctrled, judge betwr-err
America and you. Under his providence,
those who influence the councils of Arncri-
ca, and all the other inhabitants of the U-
nited Colonies, at the lia'/.ai'd oftlteir lives,
are rIntnI‘l1)In53(,l,_it) lmnrl down tu pustt:rit_\'
ihosejust andiinvaluable privileges which
they received from their ancestors.
I shall now, sir, close my correspon-
dence with you, perhaps forever. Ifyour
officers, our prisoners, receive a treatirrertt
from me ditferentfrom what I wished to
show thern,tlrey and you will remember the
occasion of it. I am, sir, your very l!tlttI-
ble servant, G. WAstrir.'G1o.\‘.
United States’ Ship Boston.
Getft3T'a’l Gage.
At Pour MAnorv, Aug. 26, 1830. l
Sir :-—VVe arrived at Gilrraltar on the 2d
of -August, where we remained about a
week. Ilere learning of the capture of
Algiers, our destination was changed, and
at the desire of Com. Porter tie set sail
for Mahori, about the 9 h, where we arriv-
ed ori zlre afternoon ofthe 18th. Here we
found Mr. Lee and family, who appeared
in excellent health and fine spirits. I be-
lieve it is his intention to leave this place
in a few days for France. Since his arrival
he has been staying on board of the U. S.
Frigate Java, with Commodore Biddle.-
His departure was acconipaniedby a salute
of 13 guns. *
Com. Porter intends to go from this to
Algiers, and afterwards to Tunis, where he
is determined to remain; and as soon as he
has made the proper arrangements, he
purposes to return to the U. States for his
family.
The J-.tva,.the Lexington, and Fairficld,
besides our own vessel, are now lying in
this port. \Ve are only waiting for a fair
wind, when we leave this for Algiers. Af-
ter leaving the Consul at 'I'unis, we enter
on a cruise of several months, but in what
quarter is tiiiknowu.
The capture of Algiers has altered ma-
terially the aspect of affairs in the Medi-
tcrraneati: marry speculations have been
started as to the probable result uf
this important event. The situation oftlte
itilrabitants is represented as wretched in
the 6-xtrenre. The pride, the indiffetetico,
the air of contempt that f0l'ltI8l'lV marked
their character, is no longer visible. They
are seer) in clusters in the streets, showing
by their tears the loss they have sustained.
The many hundred cripples that fill the
Lazarottos and Hospitals about us, prove
too satisfactorily that tliisspirit ofdefizince
was not so easily subdued. The place is
literally coveredwith objects of the most
shocking appeararic_e:—-Some on crutches
from the loss ofa lr-g,othei's deprived ofan
arm, or otherwise maimed, with hundreds
more seriously injured. It is said that up-
wards of900 sail were employed by the
French in the Expedition. Their lU:S has
been variously represented, at from ‘two to
four tliousand.—[Jvui'. of Commorcc.
John Mercer'Patton, of Virginia, has been
elected without. opposition, to serve out the
remainder of Mr. P. P. Barbour’s term in the
present Congress.
tries, and shaken the mighty empirt=.ofBri--
FOREIGN NEWS.
‘A By arrivals at NewYork last week, we have
news from England to the 23d u
"Serious distui'bauc_es had broken out in
Kent. The working inert were in a state
ofstarvation, itt consequence of the low-
ncss of wages. In sciue IflSIiImCt)l]||I8~
tries of20O to 250 had gone to the houses
offarniers, and ordered them_ to. destroy
their thrtrslririg niacliirit=s,‘l'HFeatenHI'g, in
case of refusal, to do it themselves, and
burn their corn stacks ittto the _b:ii§3rin.——
Some 3000l. had been raisealrjnur as-
sistance, but the distress, and also the ex-
cesses, still continued.
The intelligence from Paris ts to Oct.
22d. Cobbett’s Register contains in a Post
cript, the postcript of a “ long ‘A’
interesting lmleli” ll'0|l.' Ills
dated as above. It is as full
at e has lost his popularity
with the Naitiorrzrl Guard, who rave the
sole charge of tho. p.isoners. These guards
are now derrianding their rlrctions of their
rrfliceis, and preparatory to the gr3;_-zit office,
they will make sure of the ' ' mar1..—
Last night at the Palais
King cariit-. frotiiVr:r'sailles, tl
the M.rrseilluise, and called for
when he camt-. to the balcony, trey cried
‘/I mart lcs illinistrcs.’ After that they
went to another place, where there are
clrairs,aud some of the best siritillls E0‘ ‘JD’
on llt(.‘.l‘H. Tlruy sang the Maiseilloise,
with their [rats of, about fifty times, and
After every time, cried ‘rlt'm't mu: min.is-
trcs’-—‘La tale dc Polignac ct (la I’c_1/i'on-
/rct aussi,’ and kept up the concert tilla
late hour.” That is “Death to the Minis-
ters l" “' ‘be head of Poligitac and Pey-
rorrnet also I” '
In reference to this letter Cobhett re-
marks, “ I IIJVP no doubt‘at all, that iftlre
new government do not cftangt: its course
qrrickly, it will be tuinbled down.” And
ngttlt), conc-:rniug the Ex-Miiristers, “It is
clear that the lives of these vtrgabunds is
lrwtall. The people are discontented with
ll/cc whole thing. They find that they lm‘.'C
accomplislied no real c/range. The cry for
the heads of the tyrants, is in fact, a cry
for a rcpulrlic. This is plain truth ; and
the sooner we are convinced ofit the bet-
tor.”
As late as Oct. 21st, a large mob assem-
7..
‘ bled liefore the place wlwro the Cliamhers
with their usual cries of
were sitting,
“Deatli to Poligtrac,” “Deatlr to I’eyrotr-
net," and singing the Marseillois liyniu. It
was understood that in coirsoqtiencc of the
extraor‘tliriary sensatioir which the subject
produced, the Minis_ttrrs had tidandoned llte.
projoct for abolishing the punislrrnuut of
death.
The London llloriiirrg Iloraltl-‘oi’ Onio-
ber 23d, gives the following account ofthe
proceedings of the Paris populace:
For several days-—indet-d fI‘;rlTl the day
that it was geiterallv known that ire Cham-
bers, Jlie l.\IltIIs‘xi‘)ri|irtl \III t.lfl
clarud tlieuiselves frit~.ridlyl; . .. ild treat-I
ment of the ox lllinislers--ti feeling had
begun to develope itself amongst the popu-
lace: at Paris strt-rigly rleprecatory of the
contemplated indulge-nce. This feeling
found its first vent through tlrcI{evolution-
airy Journals; then it was proclaimed thro’
the occasional cries of“Death toMinistersl”
from stiiall assemblies of the people, but
at length it bztcamo the cry and rallying
uord of the mob of the capital. ’l'umuli-
nous movcrneitts were the corsoqtrerice,
and in the st-reets of Paris, which have so
lately witnessed the overthrow ofa monar-
clry by similar instruments they became a
matter of deep concern, and no small alarm
to the government.
Sunday and Monday last, (17th and 18th
of Octol)er,) the populace assembled in
great numbers in the courts of the Palais
Rnyale, and under the very windows of
the King. They did not conceal that
their objects was to overawe the govern
ment, and deter it from pursuing the
course of mercy which it had prescribed
to itselfin the case ofthe unfortunate ten-
ants of Virrcenries. The authorities were
taken by surprise, and did not immediate-
ly take repressive measures; but, up-
--u _ll]e night‘ of Monday, the National
Guard, the great bulwark of good order as
well as the liberties ofFrance, interposed,
attdcornpletely dispersed the disttttbcrs,
without much resistance. These latter then
took the road of Viricertries, but were di-
verted from their attack upon the prison-
ers by the firmness ofthe Governor of the
Castle, «S1. eventually dispersed tlrcnr-elves.
Since that night there has IJUCII no serious
disturbance. The King, throughout those
trying circumstances, has sliowii lriniself
worthy of the high office to wliiczli he h is
been called. ‘Though himself the crea-
ture of popular choice he has not been in-
tiirridated by popular clamor, but has dis-
tlngltlslied between the sense ofthe n_.rtiori
and the noise ol factions discord. He has
refused to accept tlieresigrration oftwo of
his ministers, who wished to relieve him of
the unpopularity of their names, and other
uieasures, lost it slinutd scent unbecoritirig,
or yieldirigto the mob, and has pl-act-d lriru-
selfat the head of the national Guard, de-
terniined-to force the respect due-to his of-
liceat all events.’ The King has triumplr-
ed, and the popular party'lras been weak-
ened; hut the advantage of a victoty,wlriclr
under other circurrrstuictes, a Motiarcli
injglit take for cirlargiiig his prerogative,
caniiot he ‘iI]')pl‘(?l|(’.ll?ll"tI in these, as the
National Guards, whilst thry constitute his
strength, are also a griaratiteeitliat he does
not abuse his p_o‘wr,-'r.' Ilpwards of two
hundred of the mob arc in the‘ lrztittlsf ol
the police, rind atnotigsf llltflln is said to he
a member of the family ofI’rince Matter-
riich. It was said that‘? agents-iof the ex-
Monarch ,tvere‘tlre" principal promoters “of
tliese distui'ba_nce_a. The Natiorial Guard
was about to be furtlru_r eiilargod so‘ as” to
Upon the nights of
-o ’ u
embrace every Frenclrman at all rem9_vé’d[
from the ranks of the poor. The Cham-
ber ofPeers were to meet on the 11th. of
November, and it was understood, that the
trial of Poligtiac and his fellow prisoners.
would he proceeded in without delay. ’
Iirrasioii of Spain by the ._Rq/hgcc Corrstitutiorirrlists.
Col. Valdus entered Spain from France
on the I4ill ofOctobe‘r, at the ll(~.‘ittl of400,
or, as some accounts sviy-800 Spanislt ref-
ugcr-s. The accounts ofsubscqtietrt niove-
rrietits are contt‘auictot‘y,sr);iit‘ i‘t3pt'csetittttg
liitir as completely defeatt-d after‘ some
partial success,,arrd others HS\nt&it‘Clllllg on
in uzririturrupted triumph. «'.I1lle‘__,(‘It,llt:S
do not r-rrable us to detc-i'r‘.iine .'lcc‘i‘sEvely
which account is most worthy of credit.
The defeat of Valdcs is coiilirriicd by
SUl).~‘t'qLlt'llI advices; but it is said that ‘Mirna
is tlctortiiinotl upon errtoriug Spain, inor-
dvr to collect the rentnriiits of the divisiart
of Valdcs,-n'to perretrate s.ill fartlrer into
the country, with more nuriierous and bet-
ter discipliucd forces, or finally to couiiter_-
hrtlance, lry this dctuotrstratiori, the iiroral
t-ffect pr'o(ltit:t'd by a first check. Valdes,
who it was said had been takcii or killed,
tirade his rrscape, with a few of his
rrren. It is to be hoped that this chief,
will, for the future, yield to the old utilita-
ry t'.\'])t:ll-‘.'llC(} and personal corisideration
of Mina. The following is the bulletin of
the lilir-mating army of Spain. It is dated
Zugarnrnrdi, October 16th.
On the]4:li ofOctober, at three o’clock,
the brave Col Valdt-s marched into Urducli
with a force consisting of 400 ins-.ri. He
was received tlirouglrotit the couritry with
shou s of ‘Liberty forever I’ and the a,ccl:r-
rriatiutrs ofjv-ry at his approacli tt't."itg_‘- ,_',‘rfiarr-
imous. On the 1;')u_lr he l‘t:5tL‘l)(?t’ii:-.Z_,‘._;§,<;:;-
gllltlrtll, wliere he met with the sariie-£i'ectep-
tioii. Tlro inlrabitaints display in every di-
rection the greatest errtlrusiasni at his arri-
val. A detaclrment rriarclred towards Vera.
Upon its arrival the iriliabitarrts liasterierl
to crowd rotrrid the “lilrr~:-atirig soldiers,”
and the most cordial feeling of frztte1*:1i:y
exists between :l;~......
the vast trutnher of patriots who have just
joined tltti corps of the reliige.-cs, Col.
Valdes has l')et:rt obliged to devote the en-
tire day to the org:riiiz'rtioir of the force
now under his coiirnraud. He will resume
his niurclr upon Yrtto on the ]7:li. Ilis
glorious cntei'prisc could not commence uti-
der more favorable auspiccs—a'iid they
tJ|‘<'sage a decided victory. All good Sparr-
rards, anxious to cotitr ibute ‘heir aid for ob-
ttririitrg the liberty of their courrtry, are
hastcrring to quit Ifrarrct-, and rarigo thetii-
.~clvt's under the banriur of the intrepid
I aldos. The signal has bee-ii given.—-
Spairr surrrrnons a l its cltildren to its deliv-
to its voice.
A Paris paper of October 22d. says:
“A. lBl(‘gl"—*j)ltlC tle.spat:-.lr,scrrtto the gov-
erunretrt by the I’.efect of the North, on
the 39;__li.states-—'l‘lit:Bt'lginns occupy Ant-
Dutcli troops.
TheQ’reen of Spain p‘ est:ntodFertlinarrd
October, which received the name of M.r-
ritr I5:tl.)l,'ll:l Louisa. The child is also sty-
led “Princess of the Austrisriis,” \’a‘l)lCll
shows that the king is tleterrniiit:tl'to treat
the Salique law as of no force and to t:.\'-
clutlt: his brother‘ Don Carlos from the stic-
cession. This gives great offence to the
Cailists.
A letter from Sclruriiltt iti European
'I‘urktr_v, states that at great part of that
totvir has been dcstr'oyt~d by fire, and that
the Government has sttsiaiued immense
loss by the burning ofa quairtity ofirrilitary
provisions.
The Ex-King of France, accompanied
by tho yonngDul<.e ofBor'dt.-atix, left Poole
on Sunday, October 17’, in his M=r_iest._v’s
steamer Liglitiiirig, for Scotland, where the
unfortunate family irtteirrls residing. The
alleged object of Charles’ removal to Scot-
land was, that his mind was continually
filled with appreliensioir concerning the
safety of his grandson, from the neurness
of Lulwortli Castle to the coast.
LETTER FROM COBBETT
TO THE BRAVE wortkt-\fG I’Et)1’LF. or PARIS.
Lewis, SrLssc.t:, 19th Oct. 1830.
Friends-—lSvery good man in Eriglarid
feels indignant at the base attcn-pt that is
now making to withdraw from justice the
savage and ferocious men who caused your
Streets to flow with innocent blood. \Ve
were surprised at many. things; we saw
with s‘ut‘pt‘l.~t.' another Bou-bou-set up over
you, and that, too, without coiistrlting the
“ sovereign people” upon the sulrjoct; we
were astouislied to see, that loan-johbers
tool.’ the lead in your affairs ; that Baron
Louis, who was one of the ministers of
Louis XVIII, was one of your new minis-
ters ; but, the sending of 'l‘alleyrand to
Etultititl ripened our eyes, and convinced
us,thaI your l:lood,ifthirigs§ mtist go no frtr-
ther, had ‘been shed in vain. In short,
we saw that you had, iti effect, gaitied
nothing at all ; and that-, unless you were
as vi,-_;ilant as you had been brave, you
would again be brought, tout‘ doucenieirt,
gently and softly, into the saniestate in
which the Bourboris had held you before.
All this we saw before it became so ev-
idant that it was intended to save the lives
of the bloody ministers. Now, we clearly
see, that all our suspicions were well foun-
ded ; we see, that from the first. the inten-
tion" was to betray you. . It'was you, and
you ortly, that defeated the tyrants and
their‘ butclrcririg Swiss troops; when you
-had won the victory, then came the bank-
ers and the -peers tojoin you ; they never
appeared till tltelbattle was over; they
were, as it is now clear to us, sorry for
your victory ; they pretended admiration
of_vour conduct; they heaped applause
-labor, to the edito_rs of newspapers ;
. .
in corrst:qt.iotice of
orarrct-, and no doubt they will not be deaf
werp‘. :~'tllBr:lgiuur is now from free the.
with 21 daugliter, I.'t)l‘ll upon the 10tlr of
ripoff : their de‘sigti‘_\'vas fo wfiecdle it
yoti_b'ar':t'¢ again within their rapacious grasp. 5
This is all now evident enot'agli.- They h
l
giving taxes,
irided the press by giving places, that is
that is giving the fruit ofyotrr r
they thought that they should be a
like slaves repay the debt,
t.'o.rtt'acted to pay the Allies _
l5;)m~lrous back upon you ;'- to pay the unit-
grants for betraying you to pay th'e Co-
hnrts ofCossacks to trample on you for
five years ; to pay in short, for s i'ipp"l§_l
yrruf rrirrseums and taking from you all’-t‘,l,re
fruits ofyotir wondrous valor. 1
\Ve expected that the brave Belgians,
would receive front you assistance and sup-
your villages avenged ; we expected, 3.’.
short, that the ctrtise of the people wotrltl
now, at last, prevail over the c..trse of ty-
ran s. For a while SuI't_).i.<CiIIllt’.t._l our minds
when we saw the brave Belgians abandon-
ed to their fate; wlreri we saw that the
dt'b:, the inferntzl debt, was still to press
your totlrc o rtlr ; when we saw, that there
was stiil a ‘procurer dri Roy’ (liorrihle ti-
tle !) l0,lttitl{e war upon truth; btit now
strrp_riso is tirade to give place to indigna-
tion. wlrett we so clearly see, that it is iri-
tendcd to i-or-cue fromjrrstice the bloody
nrcri wl:-: -lauglrteied your fathers, broth-
ers, wives and clzihlr-err ; and, appzrrentlyt
o shed ifpossihle, even your blood, ra-
ther than not accorrrplisli this rrt.-fztrious
purpose. W n saw, that almost as soon as
the ltl'.\V Bourbon had been set up over
you, the Chtinibcrs began to talk of a law
to abolish the ptitiislrnrcrrr of deatlr for [in-I
ri'icrrl ulf'.'nt:(3s. \\ft: thought it strange
alt-r: this law should have been tliotiglit of
just at such a time. \Ve thought that it
i'irattt.er, wqriiriug patient iuvt.-siigatiou and
cool «Jr.-libevratiotr, ought not to have been
taken up at a time ofso mticli hustle, and
u ht-it tlrerc were so many iniportant trial-
;;.:5 immcdi:i—tcly p't‘ssltrg upon the arteri-
tiou (Jftlie Clianrhers. The doctrine it-
self we tltouzglit very bad, very dangerotis;
for, how are you or we ever to be safe, if
death he not the doom of hint who shall
sr-ll a ll)|‘fl‘tfSS or a fleet to an eiicniy ? It
was curious, too, that this fit of _excessive
lttiirmuity should have .~ei'/.cd on your ru-
let's ju~t at this time. They not onlysttw
_.\'ey, L:r'3erloyere, and scores of others
ptrt to death by the legitimate Botrrbons,
but many of these satire excessively hu-
mane mt.-ti had alrand in causing tl't.-m to
lie put to cleatliil Btu, now, wlien tlrose
wlto have caused your fathers and brothers
and children and wives to be butchered by
‘rrrtlian-, paid,clothcd and fed out of taxes
Ihistéd from your labor, those humane,tlrese
tr.-ntlt.-r‘ souls shudder at the thought of to-
king the life ofa fellow creature?
Fri-nttlirneri, on your valour we have 3
fir in reliance; the only danger is, that your
gt:irerosity may mislead you. The men
who now wish to soften and deceive _j.'0lt,
are profound hypocrites. VV|ren did they
spare you ? The law of God, by the
rrrotrtlr of Moses, says, “ He who sheds
rnarr’s blood. by man shall his blood be
shut .” Jesus Christ says, “He who lives
by the sword, shall die by the st.v:rrd.”—-
Talk of Jesuits, indeed ! \Vhat Jesuits,
is there equal in hypocrisy atrd fraud to
those who are endeuvoring to save these
sangtririary tyrants, who were playing at
cards or shooting birds, while their hired
hutclu-rs were slaughtering . the people of
Paris? \Vlrat .’ eight thousand innocent
I‘ll*'tt, wonrt-n and children, stabbed or shot
by order of these merciless tyrants; fa-
thers arrd mothers left to wail the death of
their chilrlren ; orphans to weep for their
parents; widows for their husbands, and
husbands for their wives; a sl:iuglitersur-
passing in number of slain the bloody mas-
sacre ofSaint Bartliol rnrew, totally unpro-
vokvd and wantorrly committed ; and, af-
ter sufforirig the chief tyrant to escape, and
even giving him an iriimense sum of your
money as a reward for his deeds, these ltu
mane philanthropists are now engaged in
the work of saving lives even ofthe under-
t_vrants, whose orders produced the car-
nage ! Talk of Jesuits, indeed! What
Jesuit that the world ever saw, was guil-
ty of liypocrity and pt-rlidy equal to tlrese?
Brave and generous men of France.’ let
me beg yoti patiently to attend to rue while
I describe the motives ofgthose who wish
to save these base tyrants. 'I here endeav-
om-5 are so manifestly unjust, the olrject of
tlieni is so wicked, they are so directly a-
gainst nature, the’ heart of man so invol-
untarily swells with indignation at tlie.bare
thought of the audacious design, that we
are Il'.'ll‘Ilet.l away from the motives; yet,
we ought to look well at these motives; for
we shall find tlieniof the greatest impor-
tance to you.‘ . . '
From tliernonientitliat yoti had beaten
your tyrants, the great object oftlteCltam-
hers was to preserve the public funds; that
is to say, to be able still to get from you,
out of the fruit ofyour labour, taxes to pay
contracted to enslave’ you, and wlricli rntist
make you slaves aslong as you continue
to pay it. \Ve, in this country, laughed
wlmn we saw a banker at the head ofthe
Deputies, and when we saw that banker
olliu mg the crown to tti'e-new" King ! To
preserve the public funds there must _be
situation. This‘ 'Government and‘ the
Bourbons had been closely united ; and
the owners of theifunds in" France‘ were
extremely desirous, as‘ were ours here, that
your rtevnltition sliould. not dissolve the
union. - Hence-your new goverriment soon
becanre ;connected closely. with ,tr_t:irs, ;
Charles came here instead of going .to A-
merica ; y”otir7 kind-hearted,governrnent
gave him plenty of your HIOIWY’; your
new King sent over Tall_eyr‘_and to repre-
sent “the sovereign j)éopléf’t‘r,fFrarr_ce
\
hat tva's’i’o‘ a'mti’s‘é'you ; and yofr \1"é'l"e°lo‘“
my interest of debt, and to be taxed as
8
and .T
his: to’-amourrts to 275,000,00_0 of francé every-'
compel yoti and your childrerr to work ‘year;
which had been comes out n
for forcing the ple,buiikers, and the like, are Ctvners of
iftlrey lravé any thing like such a gimm-
port ; we expected to see the burning of ,
tltepiuterest ofthe debt which had been -l"*"“s Cat“-
stollation, Capt.Wadsworth’,, and Fairfield,
L. left.for-Naples, the former having Mr.
board. — .
no talk of war. We, here, are in~the satire l _ _
nus, with Com. Porter, as Consul General
of the United States: at 'Algiers,.a|soi sailed
the same day for" .'Algiers, having the
Commodore on board ,who ‘intended -to
; you Great Britain for t_I]‘i’e.rgliofofthe guffggen
eavily as you were before 9 and tlius,qui-
tly and softly, you are to brrrobbed of all-
he fruit of your V'tlf0l.[[ and your _blood.—'
Ire interest which you pay on the debt‘
and the far greater part ,of this-.
2' your labor. ‘The ‘rich pad.
the public funds-; they, tlwrr-Tore, receive‘
the money; and the-'_‘,' want this system to’
continue, and tl'.'ey krit-.w' that it could not.
continue i'I?'.uer a rt-publican governrirr-nt ;.
and they ktrow also that it cannot ctmtiriue
mt-rrf.
" Tlir-.,-' people who, mark trelilv‘, Five out
vuor lzrlror, are e7élIt'tm:ly desirous to be
closely connected with our Govcrnnitem;
becrruse that is necessary to l-u.-epup your .
public funds. f‘t‘ow, our Government lroo
very good reasons :9 Wish not to see nim-
istt-rs put to death for slartglllemtg ll?!‘ P50‘
ple ! And I have tio doubt ‘hill 3'" ll”
foreign courts have united to make .‘_' l"~!"'
gain \'.ltlt_\'otn'$ for saving the life of tltc”
rrriiristcrs. Besides this, there is~tl.'e dari-
gtj-r of the example I And, then, who
knows what sccretsthe nsiriisters may have
to tell I IIo\vevor,tlie principle motiv is
to keep all quiet; and it is expected, that
ifyou can be tirade to let those men escape
you will be again subdttcd,arrd easily made
to strbnrii to any tliirrg., /‘ nd these calcu-
lations are very correct ; for, if these men
escrrpe, tlir.-re is ito crirriei that may notbe
conrrnitted against you with impunity ; if
they ran ‘hus shed your blood, and go un-
',=ul)lSll(!tl, will any tyrant be, in future, a-
fraid to rob you ofyour property or your
libt-rtyff
That they will not go unpunislied is,we-
hope, certain, though we perceive that all
sorts of means are put in motion for the
purpose ofprevontirrg it. We see the prep-
arations going on at the Luxembourg; we
see the elf-rrts of the Paris press. and the
Englisli villains \\'llU write from Paris, and
who are hired and paid to deceive you__.arit,l
us. \Ve see, that tlrere are some men
wlio_ would set you to kill one another iii
order to-save the lives of these atrocious
murderers. We behold, lrowever,tliat you
are resolved that the miscreants shall die ‘'
that they shall not live to laugh at the tearl;\
of the widows and orphans ofParis. \Vo
see, and we see it with deep sorrow, thaf_
confirled, on whose long-tried patriotism
we all relied, whose voice is expected to
induce you to abandon your claim of jus— -
tice. \Ve should ascribe to great age ;, we
should ascribe to rlsccption practised on
him; we should ascribe to any thing btit
perftdy, the conduct ofthat one MAN, iflic‘
were, utrhappily, to become an advocate
for saving the IIVCS oftliese foul and bloody
traitors. But, however painful it might lie?
rocondenru,even tacitly, the conduct of
that our-: t\_tAN, condemn it we must and if
leuity towards these savage tyrants. Let
that our: MAN, or any other man or men,
pardon for themselves: ‘if he have had a
child, a wife orla father slaughtered, let
him pardon for himself; but let him not
pardon for you ; let him not, from any mo.
tive relative to peace and quietness; let
him not, from any imaginary expediency,
tlrwart the strait march ofeternal justice;
let hiru not tarnish his last days by doing
that which would amount to a declanrioti,
that the worl;ing people may be "slaughter-
ed with impunity, and that vengeance is
not to cry from the earth for the shedding
of lll(:ll' blo_od. Oh! for the hoirour of?
our of America and France, let him heave
an atteni't to save thoselvillains to intriguers,
tax-dovoorers, loan-rriongers, and Jews;
but let L:rfayat.ie.say with Washington, in '
a case where tlie"offence was not a thou-
sandth part so great, “ The crime was
against the people,justice to them demands
the pttrrishnrent, and let justice be obeyed."
And was he destitute of—“liumanity ;”we .
coolness and patient consideration and miss.-
dom wanting in his mind and habits ;‘ had
not he a bosom as gentle as that of Louis
I’hilippe_;. did he sign that death warrant
tvitlrout shedding tears; did his acts ofrig-
id justice teach the people of America to_ -5. _
be ferocious? Oh I for the honour ofthe: A
cause of freedom, let not the name of La-
fayctte traverse the.-\ tlatrtic associated with
those of .levvs,jobbers and aristecrats,coni-
bined to rescue from justice the murderers
of men contending for their rights! ‘
WM. COBBETT.
NOR]-‘t)Ll{, November 22.
Arrival of the U. S. S/rip Lexington.-
The U. S. ship Lexirigton,\Vm. M. Hunt-
er, Esq. Commander, from Port Malina,
ed in Ilaniptoir Roads on Friday night,and
on Szrtui-day morning came up to the Navy
Yard at this place, under full sail, with the
wind N. E. Left at Mahou, U. S. ‘ship
Biddle-,' who would remain
The ships Con-
there during the winter.
Capt. Parker, sailed on the‘ same day the
Lee (late.Consul-at.Algiers) and lady ‘on
Tire Bosloti, Capt. Storer, which ship
rad arrived at Mahon,‘ a few weeks_previ-
andat-tliat place, and vtould probably vis-
t all the Barbary States. " '
':'I-‘he Lexington passed Gibraltarlon the
6th Oct. at which tiniothe Ontario, Capt,
Stevens, waslying there. The squad:
were all well when the XL.’-left.
The whole" aniouiit, of tlre.subsciri;t,t.io’r’is'in
in
l
rad got the three colouredflag again; Paris is $10,000.
tlrere is oNE MAN, in wltose virtue we all
thousand such men, if found on the sideofit
liberty and patriotism, for the united lion- /
wlierrcehe sailed on the 22d Sept. aiichor- rr
if -‘t
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