and only to be fubject to the rules of impoft. To gain popularity, great rettenchments have been made from our revenue on the one hand, and on the other, to meet exigencies, an additional duty is laid on articles imported by our merchants. This, fir, is a fine ftroke of philofophic artifice truly admirable management, to fave popularity and deceive the people! In the frenzy of economy, our fhips of war are fold our commerce, from which we are to derive all our revenue, is to be unprotected-additional duties are to be impofed on our merchants, and that too, for the favor fhown them by government in not protecting their property.

I have been induced, fir, to compare the practice of the prefent adminiftration with the fentiments of Mr. Madifon at the period I have mentioned, in order to thew the pernicious and interefted policy of Virginia. A policy, calculated to promote the aggrandizement of particular ftates, and to defray the expences of government by the hardy industry of the north. It behoves us, fir, to watch, with jealous eve, the operations of that haughty flate. Vigilance is neceffary to guard a gainst her encroachments-refolution is requifite to refift her ufurpations.

"By a refpectable Committee from the Legislature, I have been informed of my appointment to the Office of Chief Ma giftrate for the year enfuing. In times paft, while endeavoring to difcharge the duties of the office according to the best of my abilities, with integrity, and a strong attachment to the welfare of my fellow citizens, my principles and conduct have in many inftances been grofslymifreprefented,

There are undoubtedly folid reasons which might induce many of my fellow cit izens to prefer fome other perfon for the Office. In addition to thefe, extraordinary exertions have been made, not only within, but from without the ftate, to prevent my election. That my fellow citizens have again caled me to the office,notwithstanding thofe exertions, demands and has my moft fin. çere and warmest acknowledgements.

"Confidering it honorable, for men who are called to important offices, to have their political fentiments known, my own have never been difguifed. I am, and have uniformly endeavored to be, a Federalift of the WASHINGTON fchool, fo far as I understand thefe principles; and believing they are best calculated for maintaining the honor and dignity of our country for preferving the Union of the States, and the Peace, Liberty and Safety of my fellow citizens-it is my duty to promote thole principles, fo far as I may with propriety, in ftrict conformity to the conftitution, and Laws of our National and State Governments. I now declare my acceptance of the appointment, and am ready to take the oath of Office required am ready to take the oath of Office required by the conftitution."

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Editor's Closet.

REVIEW,

OF ABRAHAM BISHOP'S LAST ORATION.

I have just received a new batch of
Political Delusion," manufactured by
that high-priest of deifm and democracy,
Abraham Bishop, under the title of an
"Oration in honor of the leation of Pre-

fident Jefferson and the peaceable acquifi-
tion of Louisiana, delivered at the Na-
tional Festival in Hartford, on the 11th
of May, 1804." It might, perhaps, facif-
fy the reader, were I merely to obferve,
with my star-gazing neighbor, that " Of
Bishop's Oration we cannot say more than
that it is equal to the former productions
of that celebrated writer." But fince this
new medley of falfhood and impudence
has not yet been as much fpread abroad
in this state by tin and wooden-dith-ped.
lars as the former productions of that
celebrated writer, I cannot refrain from
taking fome notice of it. Here, however,
I wish to have it under food, that I feel no
difpofition to injure the fale of Mr. Bish-
op's pamphlet. Indeed, this will appear
from the very nature of my remarks.-
Nothing can fo much promote the fale
with democrats, as to prove that the whee

work does not contain a particle of truth.

Perhaps the title of the pamphlet is of little confequence; but, really, I should like to know what right Bilhop can claim of calling the frolic at which he delivered his harangue, a "National Festival:"The celebration was ordered by the Au rora-the fame paper that recommended the period of Washington's refignation as a day of jubilee. The order was obeyed by a confiderable number of foreigners, and a fmall number of noify democrats→ nothing more; and yet Abraham Bishop dubs the celebration, a "national feftival." As well might the gang of coun terfeiters who have lately been detected in the United States, call themselves the Na tional Money-Makers.

Abraham commences his Oration thus ; "We are not convened to do homage "to a tyrant, nor to parade the virtues of "a Prefident and Senate for life, nor to "bow before a First Conful, nor to bend "the knee before a hoft of privileged or, "ders."

Why this boaft is made in an "Oration in honor of the election of President Jef, ferfon," I cannot conceive; for, surely, of all men in the world Prefident Jefferfon is the least to be thanked for our exIf every emption from all those evils. American who lived in the time of the revolution, had been as willing to escape the vengeance of Great Britain by a retreat to the mountains, as this fame Prendent Jef ferlon, we might have been convened, even at this day, " to do homage to a ty rant." If the democrats fucceed in a plan which they now have in agitation, it may not be long before we shall have an oppor tunity to parade the virtues of (at least) a prefident for life;" and tho' we are not yet required to bow before an American Firft Conful, ftill we are already called up. on in this state" to bend the knee before a hoft of privileged orders."

"While Providence (fays Abraham) is

giving to Britons a' folemn commentary "on the burning of our towns and the "murder of our brethren, we are enjoy

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ing the fruits of a glorious defence a gainst the paffive obedience, which her "infatiate court attempted to impole on

" us."

If Bishop, from head to foot, was not a perfect compound of brass and marble, he

would have blushed to his very toe-nails,
at pronouncing fuch a fentence.
"WE

[the Connecticut democrats, with Abra-
ham Bishop at their head] ARE ENJOYING
THE FRUITS of a glorious defence," &c.
Yes, to the difgrace of the prefent admin-
istration be it faid, fuch deteftable fycu-
phants as Abraham Bishop, who were too
young, too cowardly, or too much affect-
ed with toryifm, to take any part in that
"glorious defence," are now indeed "en-
joying the fruits" thereof, while many an
old patriot, and brave revolutionary ful-
dier, covered with fears, is pining in want
and wretchedness.

Many people, who deteft Abraham Bithop and his principles, will nevertheless contend, that he is a correct, able and elegant writer. But, for my part, I could never discover any thing, either in the pamphlets formerly hawked about the country, or in the one now before me, furnifhing any proof of the opinion. On the contrary, I find the thing now under review, to be one of the most infipid of performances a disjointed and unconnected jumble of ill-made falfhoods-ridiculous and unnatural figures, and bad English In the 4h page the following paffage oc

curs :

"Wealth, luxury, vice, ariftocracies will attack us in our decline: thefe are " evils of fociety, never to be courted, "but to be put to as diftant a day as pof

"fible."

The idea that wealth is to attack us, particularly in our decline, is certainly new ; and tho' wealth may, for aught I know, be a very great evil of fociety, ftill it is prefumed that it will be very long before people can be perfuaded that it is "never to be courted, but to be put to as diftant day as poffible."

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Having paffed the dark feafon of our "revolution, having witneffed the birth "of our empire, having combatted the

tendency of an administration, which fought to rank us with nations, whole "fyftems of eternal war and debt we ab. "horred," &c.

federalifts an intention of ranking this
country with nations with whom thofe ve-
ry federalifts had contended for liberty
and for independence.

"Uniform refpe&t for the fovereign
people and for peace has characterized
our Prefident: his ears have been open
"to the voice of the people, who called
him to his high office."

Indeed, indeed, who ever denied that

Mr. Jefferfon's ears were open to the voice
of the people who called him to the pre-
fidency?

I now come to a fentence in the pam-
phlet which deferves particular notice :—

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By our revolution, (fays Abraham) "which coft more than an hundred mil. lions, befide much fhedding of blood "and years of anxions fufpence, the At "lantic ftates of this continent were re"deemed from the dominion of an island.

By the skilful negociation of Livingston "and Monroe was purchased, at an ex"pence of 15 millions, a territory equal "in extent to thefe ftates."

In this paragraph a most infiduous at-
tempt is made to raife the confequence of
the Louiliana purchase, at the expence of
the American revolution. A contraft is
drawn, by which the writer intends to
make out, that the acquifition of Louifia-
na is vastly more glorious than the at-
chievement of our independence. The

former (he fays) coft but fifteen millions-
the latter more than an hundred millions,

befides a great many lives, and then he

cafe, is equal.
endeavors to fhew that the gain, in each
He throws a naked ter-

ritory, a howling wildernefs, into the scale,
against the honor, the glory, the freedom
and independence of a great nation, and
commands the latter to kick the beam. In
this way he intends to perfuade us that Liv-
aingfton and Monroe are far greater men,
and are better entitled to the gratitude of
their country, than the heroes of our rev-
olution. He would fain make us believe
that two" farthing rufh-lights" can out-
fhine the meridian fplendor of the fun.-
I confefs it gives me fome fatisfaction, to
fee democracy driven to fuch miferable
fhifts. It is a proof of poverty, that au-
gurs ill to the faction.

Impudence is a well known characteriftic of Abraham Bishop; but I could hardly have fufpected that he poffeffed enough of it to hazard fuch a paffage as the above. Every perfon in the United States will fee the abfurdity of ascribing to the

I have made but little progress in the pamphlet this week. As room admits, the remainder of it will be attended to.

(TO BE CONTINUED.)

ARISTOCRACY UNMASKED !

"

Every day furnishes new proof of the ariftocratical bent of Conneticut. At the late feffion of their legiflature, one of the mofl anti-genuine-republican laws was paffed that ever was imagined. Under the pretence of fecuring the freedom of the prefs," they have declared that, in all profecutions for libels, the defendant may give the truth in evidence, as a justifica. tion! Now, "we order thefe things better" in this ftate; but Connecticut cannot boat fuch genuine republicans as Morgan Lewis and Ambrofe Spencer--nor fuch a wife legislature as ours.

Granny Barber claims great credit for the Legislature and executive of Georgia, on account of the removal of Judge Bow. en, who lately cut a few republican capers at Savannah. The democrats fo feldom deviate into an aft of juftice, that we feel entirely willing to give them all the credit they afk for this one inftance.

Some time fince a letter directed to the fubfcriber was brought to this place by one of our packets, with a box of pamphlets accompanying it. The box was received, but the letter has by fome means fallen into careless or worse hands and has never been delivered. As it is of fome conlequence I am anxious to fee it. And fince I am not much in the habit of asking favors of my enemies, I fhould like, for once, to receive juftice from their hands. The perfon who took the letter, if he has not already destroyed it, may conceal his knavery by putting it into the post-office letter-box. If this is not immediately done, perhaps fome clue may be obtained to discover him. H. CROSWELL.

To Correspondents.

Prudence dictates the omiffion of " AMPHIARAUS." Certain paffages might be rendered objectionable by the illiberal conftructions of carping democrats.

We propose to notice, in fome future number, a certain Sermon under the above fignature.

gricultural.

XTRACT.

event smut damaging Wheat with on the culture of the same. More he advantage of the Farmers of the Northern parts of New-York and may be of some use to Connecticut.

VE found that three pecks of lent for one acre of ground of foil and ftrength; if more be e acre the talks, or a great them, will not grow to their nor the ear to its proper fize, to its full bigneis, and the be from 2 to 5 pounds lefs the

ible that many farmers will op. ractice-but they will fee the if they will try it for it is land will bear about the fame arly, and if in ftraw, then the ft be fewer and fmaller.

green weeds &c. which, before it is dry
is put into the mow or ftack, and will cer-
tainly fweat, and by that means the fmut,
which is light, will be carried with the
fteam through the whole mow or flack-
befides, the cradle cuts off that, which it
leit ftanding would enrich the ground..

I have but little expectations that thefe
remarks will at prefent anfwer my honeft
intentions for we find that education and
tradition have fo bound down people, that
there is no moving them, let their prin-
ciples or practice be ever fo abfurd. But
as intereft is the great fpring in all our ac-
tions, I hope fome will be induced to pay
attention to the experiments made forty
years by a
FARMER.

Litchfield County, 1804.

"The natural bond
"Of Brotherhood, is sever'd as the flax
"That falls asunder at the touch of fire:
"He finds his fellow guilty of a skin,
"Not colar'd like his own, and having pow'r
"T' enforce the wrong, for such a mighty cause,
"Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey."

3 another particular that the
il in very much-that is, in
ir Wheat before it is perfectly
h is almost the only reafon of
troubling them. I commonly
eat ftand longer than my neigh-
never have been troubled with WITH painful emotions, mingled with
ept when I bought my feed; aftonifhment, does the philanthropist, the
ch I have concluded that it was man of feeling, and the true republican,
harvesting that prevented fmut turn his eyes to our fifter ftate, fo blind to
ging flour.-About thirty years her own interefts, and to the happiness of
ght a crop on the ground-it her citizens, as to repeal the law for the
be very fmutty; nearly one prohibition of the the flave trade. The
thought to try what would pre-injuftice of this unnatural and inhuman.
maging the flour-accordingly I traffic is pretty generally acknowledged,
d till it was quite dry, fo that even among its warmest fupporters; but
in binding, the ground was the impolicy of the flave trade is not fo
under every fheaf. When I generally believed. I fay it is unnatural,
there was no fmut to be seen. becaule nature formed all men equally
e, by the fame method, have free; therefore enflaving one another is
fame good effect. Wheat that oppofing her dictates, and of course un-
natural inhuman, becaule parents are
torn from their children, hufbands from
their wives, in fhort the deareft ties of na-
ture are broken, and trodden upon by
monfters in human fhape. Hamanity

after this manner will be as eed as if there had been no fmet Farmers are of opinion if their Ils in binding there is a great they are mif ken-there is s in threshing Wheat that is harore it is dry than is wafted in haren it is over dry, (lo termed.) any fmut in Wheat that fweats degree in the mow it will cer. Et the kernel, and by that means opagated.

(hudders at the idea.

Previous to confidering the impolicy of admitting flaves into a free country it may be proper to obferve, that it is a manifef breach and encroachment on the constitution of the United States, which expreffly declares all men free.

Extract of a letter fr
Stoughton, in the
to his friend in
6, 1804-
"ON Monday laf
of eleven & twelve
enced a small fhower
confiderable thunder
vious to the fhower,
not much colle&ed,
only at a distance, w
a fudden and trem
feemed to burft upor
heade. Most of the
ly agitated, and my
fainting. After atter
minutes, I went out,
er fome effects of the
ined the house and ou
no difcovery. Soon
eye towards the lit
near the meeting ho
a collection of peop
motion-Apprehen

The more we reflect on this affair, the ftronger is our conviction, that-the complicated and unexpected violation of the laws and jurifdiétion of the country, recently committed by the Cambrian trigate, within the harbour, ought not to be paffed over as an occurrence of interior moment. According to the report that is made of this tranfaction, (of the accuracy of which there feems to be no longer any reason to doubt) the Preident owes it to the nation, whole lovereignty has been infringed to the government of the ftate, whofe laws have been forcibly refifted-as well as to the duties of an impartial neutrality, which has been impaired. to demand full and exemplary fatisfaction for this unparalleled and grofs irregularity.

home, on account of the fituation of the dividual, but being no longer under that
family, I fent a boy to make inquiry. He
Hereftraint, we now mean to pursue the fub.
returned with the information that Mr.ject; for we deem is in the highest degree
LEWIS JOHNSON was ftruck with light. important that the public fhould poffefs a
ning, and fuppofed to be dead. I immedi- clear and distinct view of this alarming
ately ran to the place where he was, (the tranfaction, in all its confequences.
diftance being between forty and fifty rods,)
on my arrival was told, that he was dead.
I found that they had actually clofed his
eyes, and, as ufual, were preparing to put
on a bandage to fupport his jaw, which
was fallen. They had fent for Dr. Adams:
but he had not arrived. Recollecting to
have seen an account of the efficacy of
cold water, when applied to perfons appa-
rently killed with lightning, I caufed a
fimilar application to be made; which fuc-
ceeded beyond my fanguine expectations.
A bucket of water was thrown upon him
-it was repeated-he foon exhibited figns.
of life and began to galp. At this moment
the Doctor arrived and opened a vein in
his arm. The application of cold water
was ftill continued, and not lefs than fix
buckets were poured upon him. Symp.
toms of returning life increafed. In a-
bout half an hour he spoke, and in an
hour walked, with affittance, into the house.
Complaining of extreme chillness, he was
wrapped in flannel, and laid on a bed.
From the moment of his refufcitation he
was exercifed with violent pains in his
breaft, back and limbs, and particularly
in his joints. These pains continued,
without intermiffion, during the day and
following night. But being again bled,
and taking cooling phyfic, the pains, on
Tuefday morning, began to abate, and
have fince continued gradually to de-
creale. He is now in a state of convalef.
cence, though extremely feeble, and not in-
tirely free from pain. The hair on the back
part of his head was confiderably finged,
his fkin in feveral places burnt, the fhoe
on his left foot rent in pieces; but his
clothes received no injury.

From the facts above ftated it appears, that the copious application of cold water was the means, in the hand of Divine Prov. idence, of refcuing Mr. Johnfon from a premature grave, reftoring to his family their head and fupport, and to fociety a ufeful member.

Political.

FROM THE EVENING POST.

The affair of the Cambrian Frigate.

THE Citizen of this morning is quite filent upon this bufinefs; but if the minifterial paper has done with it, we have

in

fhip of war and duties, by recruitin territory. cruits are from which fel, makes n ciple, fince unprivileged jurifdiction, has a claim

juftice from Neither is were taken fon, our jur as upon land ferved, this right to fend

as he had to Pitt, after fh The apology fered, that th ned, and exp is only an ag afmuch as it ground of c enemy to ind ritory, and t by altering. parties, may fhips of war,

Ships of war coming into a neutral port, like an army marching through a neutral country, are bound to respect the laws and jurifdi&tion of the fovereign. By permitting their entry into this port, the fovereign fo far diminishes his own authority, as to leave to fuch fhips the requifite and exclufive power to preferveneffes of this and enforce their difcipline, according to their own code, fo that even Court Martials may be held, and their fentences carried into execution, within a neutral country.

But the reafon which creates, alfo
limits this exception, and the laws and
jurifdiction of the neutral ftate, in all
things not included within the exception,
remain in full vigour; every violation of
them, therefore, by fuch fhips of war is
not only an offenfive breach of hofpitality,
but an infult that gives to the nation, a
perfect claim to complete fatisfaction.

Reputation is, at leaft, of as much im-
portance to nations as to individuals, and
the character of neither will be refpe&ted, ||
if they quietly fubmit to be infulted;--
hence it becomes a principal duty of those
to whom the national adminiftration is
committed, to purfue the reparation for
indignities the flate may have received, in
a manner calculated to render habitual
among its citizens, Correct notions of the
rights and honour of their country. Not
only refpect for themselves, but in certain
cafes, confiderations of impartiality and
juftice to others, require of nations to
maintain the integrity of their laws and
jurifdiction. A neutral flate is not at li-
berty to allow either of the belligerents to
recruit within its territories; if fuch in
dulgence is granted to one, it cannot be
refused to the other; prudence requires,

Our objeć

not with the much lefs to popular refe to perplex th tranfaction moft difrefpe has occurred where it took pute in refpe ly wish to fi upon the co this fingular fion.-Highl be admitted allowed to laws with im like treatmen navigation an ferve to be ei neither can graced-it is cerning whe fhould be mo We ought n with any thi the injury do

ion of our co

they have fuf

In the Post of

We intend

ers with any further observations as to the interference of the Mayor of the city. The opinion we have already ventured to publifh as to his authority, we ftil maintain. We have from the beginning been of the opinion, that however grofs the of fence committed, yet, it being done in derogation of national fovereignty, the Mayor of this Corporation was no more competent to interfere than the Rector of Trinity Church. In our jugment the au thority must emanate from the executive of the United States; but whether this be fo or not, we leave to others to fettle.

The importance of the tranfa&tion itfelf cannot be too deeply impreffed, nor hardly too often enforced on the public mind. It is our defire to be explicitly underflood on this question, and we have taken fome little pains to enable us to treat it in a manner not unworthy its high confequence. The following pofitions are believed to be found national law

Idopt the ufages generally received elfe.
where. For an account of thefe ufages
we are indebted to the excellent treatise on
maratime law, by Azuni, who is not only
the latest and moft fatisfactory author who
has written upon the fubject, but who be-
fides is admitted to be more impartial than
Hubner, and more copious as well as
more accurate than either of his country-
men Galliani or Lamprici.

From the French of this excellent work,
by M. Digeon, (vol. 2. p. 325, 6) now
lying before us, we tranflate the following
regulations, as what "have long been
obferved in the most frequented ports of
Europe."

1. Privateers and every other veffel of war, while in a neutral port, are bound to observe a peaceable and refpe&tful behaviour to all perfons, and especially towards fubjects and fhips of war of their enemy.

2. They are not at liberty to increase their crews, either from the inhabitants of the neutral country, nor even from among their own countrymen who may happen to be there.

3. They may not augment either the number or the calibre of their cannon, nor increase the quantity of their warlike ftores.

The ports of a neutral country may, according to the ufage of nations, be reforted to by the fhips of war of belligerent powers; firft, as an afylum against the inclemency of the ocean, and fecondly, for the purpofe of obtaining all fuch innocent. fupplies as they may fiand in need of.The importance of this fubject, however, both in regard to the neutal flate, whole Jaws and jurifdiction are liable to be vio-they lated, and which, in confequence thereof, may be drawn into inconvenient difputes with other nations; as likewife in regard to foregn powers, which, according to the relative pofition of their refpe&tive territories, may find an advantage in being permitted to frequent the ports of a neu

fral flate, has occafioned it to become matter of particular ftipulation in a variety of modern treaties. But thefe ftipulations themfelves, have fometimes given rife to controverfies, as difficult to be derided, and equally injurious in their confequences (as we ourselves have heretoJore unfortunately experienced) as thofe they were intended to prevent. The lively but unfatisfactory difcuffion that once took place between a French Ambaffador and our government, concerning certain articles in our treaty with France, is with. in the recollection of every one; but thank heaven that treaty is no more. The treaty with England which also contained a variety of maritime provifions, is alfo at an end; and it is not recollected that any thing in the convention with France (which will expire in a few years) reftrains our government from eftablishing fuch regulations upon this fubje&, as without preferences or partiality, but by an indifcriminate application to the fhips of all nations, will be the most likely to maintain the peace and honour of the country. Until this be done we must a

4. They ought not to lie in wait for, nor to take means to learn what enemy's veffels are expected to arrive; and in cafe they fhould difcover them off the port if they attempt it, they may be compelled they may not go out to capture them; and by the forts or fhips of war to return into

port.

5. They may not fet fail as foon as an enemy's fhip has weighed anchor, but they ought to be detained in port at least twenty-four hours; this time being elapf. ed, it till the enemy's fhip is feen off the port [being unable to proceed] they may be detained until fhe be out of fight, and her direction is loft.

6. They may not conceal themselves in the bottom of bays ar.d gulphs, nor behind heads of land and fmall islands of a neu. tral country, for the purpofe of furprifing and capturing enemy fhips: they fing and capturing enemy fhips: they ought not in any manner to disturb the free and fecure approach of any veffels of any nation whatever, towards ports or upon the coast of a neutral state.

7. They cannot, while in the ports, or within the territorial feas of a neutral nation, attempt to recover by force or artifice, the prizes already made by their enemy; nor to recapture their countrymen who have been taken prisoners.

8. They may not expofe to fale, nor exact any ranfom for the redemption of prizes which they may have made, before prizes which they may have made, before fuch have been formally adjudged "good and lawful prize."

Such are the principles of maritime

law as at prefent obferved in Europe; and fuch, we prefume, we are warranted in affuming them to be here. We are now then prepared to fum up this cafe, as they fay at the bar: it fhall be concifely done.

A fhip of war has entered our port, be ing neutral, but as it was neither for "the purpose of feeking an afylum again the inclemency of the ocean, nor for the pur pofe of obtaining innocent fupplies," the entry of the port at all is not strictly with in the established ufage of nations. But being entered, fhe has not conducted herfelf in "a peaceable and refpectful manner to all perfons," but has forcibly refifted our own officers in the execution of our own laws. In this fhe has offended not only against the first of the above enumerated regulations, but againft all acknowledged principle among civilized na

tions. But

Secondly. She has increafed her crew from thofe of the fame nation who hap pened to be here; and in this has violated the fecond regulation. A violation of the utmost moment to us, as it caufes us, if fuffered with impunity, to depart from our neutrality towards her enemy.

Thirdly. If report be correct, the British captain has difregarded the fourth regulation, inasmuch as he is now "lying in wait for the departure" of enemy vel fels within our harbour.

But as it does not appear that the eneproceed to fea, there can be no charge my's fhips offered to weigh anchor and proceed to fea, there can be no charge founded on the departure of the British within the 24 hours, as fpoken of in the 5th regulation. From what we have feen, however, there can be little doubt what

would have happened, had circumftances

admitted.

After the outrages committed against our laws and jurifdiction in particulars of fuch great moment, it is hardly to be fuppofed they would have been ref. trained by inferior confiderations. But enough has been done: a high handed of. f.nce has been committed against the na tional fovereignty, flagrant beyond ex ample, infolent beyond all expreffion The honour of the nation is at ftake upon the precedent and if we content to receive a reparation fhort of the injury, it is tarnished in the eyes of the world.- We are not contending for a vain punc tilio. A clear unblemished character comprehends not only the integrity that will not offer, but the fpirit that will not fubmit to an injury; and whether it belongs to an individual or to a community, it is the foundation of peace, of independ ence, of fafety. Private credit is wealth

public honour is fecurity." To our government then, we turn on this important occafion; a fignal reparation is due;

* Junius.