Be it our weekly task, To note the passing tidings of the times. Latest Foreign Intelligence. The French manifefto, which follows, is a paper from which more important confequences are to be deduced, than from all that has hitherto appeared in any foreign print. Being without fignature of any, kind, it would appear in rather a queftionable shape, but the Hamburgh letter which precedes it, ftamps it with official authority, and it is evidently received as fuch in England, as appears by the remarks of the not have a copy of the Manifefto before the mail of the ift of April." THE CONSULAR MANIFESTO. The following is a copy of the manifefto, in its original ftate, inferted by defire of the French minifter at Hamburgh, in the Hamburgh Correfpondent, of the 30th ult. Paris, March 15. Not For fome months a war of newspapers and of the prefs has been kept up between By the Arabella Packet, from Falmouth, France and England. This feemed mere. which the left the 10th ult. we have re-ly the dying embers of an extinguished ceived a file of London papers to the 8th of conflagration; the laft confolation of a def April, two days later than heretofore, and perate party; the food of fome low pafas to the great question of peace or war, fions of a few hungry fcribblers. The they afford more on which to build at least French government was far from attacha plaufible conjecture, than any thing we ing importance to fuch matters. have heretofore feen. withflanding fome difficulties in the complete execution of the treaty of Amiens, they fill believed they might rely on the good faith of the British government, and directed their attention folely to the eftab. lifhment of the colonics. Relying upon the facrednefs of treaties, they fecurely difperfed the remains of the French naval force, which had been given a prey to the English fleet. In this fituation, fuddenly appeared a folemn meflage from the cabi. nct of St. James's, and informed all Eu-. rope that France was making confiderable preparations in the ports of Holland and France; an addiefs was voted by parlia. ment, promifing to the King of England fuch extraordinary means of defence as the fecurity of the British empire and the honour of the three crowns might require. From the fudden appearance of this meffage, people doubted whether it was the effe&t of treachery, of lunacy, or of weaknefs. London cditor, which follow in this and which are written in a ftyle calculated to roufe the attention of the American pub[Evening Poft.] lic. LONDON, APRIL 6. Extract of a letter from Hamburgh, March 29. "In confequence of the arrival of a Courier from France laft night, the Senate was convene, and held an extraordinary meeting, which lafted four hours. The fubje&t of confideration was a threatening note from the French Minifler Reinhard, relative to the following affair:-A few weeks ago, Reinhard applied to the Magiftrates to procure the infertion, in the Correfpondenten, of a Manifefto from the pen of Bonaparte himfelf, full of the moft inde. cent invectives againt England. This production was refered to the Syndic and Cenfor of the Prefs, Mr. Doorman who permitted it to be inferted, after friking out the moft objectionable pallage. The Manifefto, thus modified, appeared in the Correfpondenten of the 25th inft. under the head of Paris, March 15, as an extract from the Bulletin de Paris. This however, inftead of fatisfying the French Minifter, has provoked his utmost indignation, which is not to be appealed but by publishing it in its entire ftate. The republication in an official fhape is accordingly to take place to-morrow in all the Hamburgh papers, which, in confequence of an order from the Government, are not to be put to prefs until ten o'clock, and you therefore can Let any one caft his cye over the ports of France and Holland, where he will find only detached naval preparations deftined for the colonics, and confifting only of one or two line of battle fhips and a few frig ates. On the other hand, let him look at the ports of England, filled with a formidable naval force; on fuch a review one could be tempted to believe that the meffage of the king of England was mere irony, if fuch a farce were not unworthy the majesty of a government. If one confiders the influence of factions in fo free a country, one might fuppofe that the King of England had only had the weaknefs to yield, if weaknefs were compatible with the first quality of a King. In fhort, no rational motives remain to which it can be afcribed except bad faith-except a fworn enmity to the French Nation-except perfidy, and the defire of openly breaking a folemn Treaty, for the fake of advantages, which will be maintained, and the facrifice of which the Honour of France and the Faith of Treaties forbid. When a man reads this Meffage, he thinks himself transported to the times of thole treaties which the Vandals made with the degenerate Romans, when force ufurped the place of right, and when with a hafty appeal to arms, they infulted the antago nift they meant to attack. In the prefert ftate of civilization there is a relpect which a great Monarch, which a polifhed pecple owe to themfelves, were that respect no more than to feek a plausible pretext for an unjust war. But in this inftance eve. ry thing is precipitated, and repugnant to decency and to juffice. An eternal war would fucceed a dreadful conteft, and the more unjust the attack, the more irrecon. cileable would be its animofity. Such a novelty will doubtlefs excite the difan probation of Europe. While even the English, whofe national pride had not entirely blinded them, fighed at this prof pect, did the Times call the peace of A. miens an armiftice, and in fo doing paffed the fevereft fatire on the government it defended, and the rapid fall of the national funds is the first prelude to the misfortunes which may follow, as the revenge due for the wound given to all focial rights. The French are lefs intimidated than irritated by the threats of England. They have neither been difpirited by their reveries, nor elevated by their victories-in a war to which there appeared no termination, they faw all Europe confederated again't them. Their conftancy, their courage, and the prompt activity of their govern ment, brought it to a conclufion. This war would have a different object. France would contend for the liberty of the states of Europe, and the facrednefs of their treaties; and if the Englith government be determined to make it a national war, per haps her boafted formidable naval ftrength would not be lufficient to decide the refult, and to fecure the victory. The French, strong in the juftice of their caufe, and in the confidence they repofe in their govern. men', do not dread the new expences and new facrifices which fuch a war might render neceffary. Their fyftem of finance is more fimple and lefs artificial than that of London, and fo much the more folid. It all lies in their foil and in their courage. On the first news of the English Meflage, all eyes were turned to the Cabinet of the Thuilleries. As moft trifling motions receive a character of importance, its moft unpremeditated words were eagerly caught up. Every one impatiently expected the affembly for the prefentation of foreigners, which Madame Bonaparte holds once a month. Every one was prepared to draw fome inferences from it. It was as fplendid as ufual. The firft Conful made his appearance, and faid, on his entrance to the English Ambassador who was ftanding befide M. In Dur Marcoff, "We have been at war for 12 years. The King of England fays, that France is making immenfe naval preparations. He has been led into an error. the French ports there are no preparations of any magnitude. The fleet is gone to St. Domingo and the colonies. With regard to the ports of Holland, to which the Meffage likewife alludes, there are only the preparations for the expedition un der general Victor, and all Europe knows its deftination is for Louifiana. The King fays further, that between the Cabinets of Paris and London, differences continue. I know of none. It is true that England ought to have evacuated Malta, and Malta is not evacuated; and as his Britanic Majesty has bonnd himself by the moft folemn Treaty ever entered into, it is impoffible to doubt of the fpeedy evacuation of that island. And," added the First Conful, "those who attempt to frighten the French people, fhould know, that it is poflible to kill, but not to intimidate them." ing the courfe of the evening, when the Firft Conful happened to be near M. Markoff, he faid to him in a low voice," that the British Miniftry wifhed to keep Malta for five years more. Such a proposal was infulting, and no Treaties thould be entered into which it was not refolved to obferve." At the conclufion of the Affembly, when the English ambaffador was about to retire, the Fird Conful said to him, Madame the Duchefs of Dorfet, has spent the unpleasant part of the year at Paris. It is my fincere with that fhe may allo fpend the agreeable feafon. But if it hould happen that we really must go to war, the refponfibility is exclufively with thofe who deny the validity of their own contracts, fince they refule to obferve treaties which they had concluded." Thefe words of the First Conful require no comment. They explain completely his prefent opinions, his paft conduct, and his refolution for the future. It is fufficient to compare them with the tergiverfations, the duplicity, the evafions, and the Meffage of the English Government, in order to be enabled to decide on the juftice of the difpute. LONDON, APRIL 7. It is a violation of every principle of inde- whom fhe has already fo grieviously oppref fed. But to conclude, we are, on the whole, of opinion, that Bonaparte, notwithftanding the peevishness of the wretched farrago in queftion, is by no means inclined to appeal at prefent to the fword. He betrays evident fymptoms of impotence thro'out;-though he fometimes ftorms, he whines in the very fame breath; and feeling his incapacity for war, he may be indu ced to yield, while he has an opportunity of fo doing, without the appearance of fubmiflion. Hudson, May 31, 1803. Next week, pursuant to pofl ponement, one of the indictments against the junior editor of this paper for a fuppofed libel on Prefident JEFFERSON, will be tried before the Court of Seffions, to be holden at Claverack. Accounts, which we believe are cor The Manifefto itself is of lo contempti tion; nor fhall we occupy the attention of ble a nature, as fcarcely to require refutaproduction, in which found ufurps the our readers by paffing in minute review, a place of fenfe, words appear instead of reafon, and affertions are paffed for argument. A flight perufal of it will be fufficient to detect the fallacy and abfurdity of the whole, and excite the indignation of every liberal and enlightened mind. Whatever poifon it antidote. The arguments are all hack nied, may contain, carries with it a fufficient and have long fince been combated with fuccefs; the language, like all the other effufions of the Confular fcribes, is pettifrect, ftate that four federalifts, are elected and puerile; and the invective, particu. to the next Congrefs, in Virginia. Thus larly as far as regards one of the most amiit would feem, that Mr. Jefferfon and his able and virtuous Sovereigns of the age, at politics, are leaft approved where they are most known. once bafe, unmanly, and infamous. The liberties of Europe are fpoken of by a defenflave every nation on earth; and the pot, whole leading principle it has been to moft unfounded affertions are brought in aid of the most flagrant outrages that ever difgraced the chief of any government.-In the irritablenefs of his difpofition, in the violence of his anger, he feems, indeed, to have loft his reafon; and, compared with challenge of Paul becomes dignified and this Manifefto of Bonaparte, the memorable rational. The converfation at the Thuille- renewed, the financial fyftem of France will We have, in a fubfequent part of our pa per, given a copy of the Confular Mani-dities, boldly afferts, that should war be jesto, alluded to in our laft, and which, from the circumftance under which it has been published, may be confidered as the formal anfwer of Bonaparte to the late Meflage of his Britannic Majesty to both Houses of Par-king one fhort remark. During the late liament. The mean and unworthy expe dient to which the Confular Agent has had recourse to obtain the insertion of this tarrago in the Hamburgh Journal, has already been ftated by us; and a proceeding more difgraceful to its author, but rarely occurs in the annals of ancient or modern times. conteft, France may be faid to have raised The Knot. MARRIED, In this city, on Monday the 23d inst. THOMAS JENKINS, ESQ. Mayor of this city, to Miss MARGARET HUSSEY, widow of the late Captain Paul Hussey, of this place. At Troy, on Monday the 16th inst. Capt. LABAN GARDNER of Nantucket, to Miss PHEBE VAIL of Troy. ERRAT A. In the Balance of last week, an error occurred in the statement of scattering votes for Governor of Connecticut. For 838 read 223. To Readers & Correfpondents. We offer "MORGAN" our apology for the long delay of his valuable communication on the subject of Removals. It has been on file for some months; but a crowd of other political matter has hitherto prevented its publication. It contains trutl.s, however, which will never be out of season, until dem. agogues are out of existence, or at least, ut f fashion. We beg that it may be read with at STERN Winter now, by Spring repress'd, Soft pleasure with her laughing train, And vegetation plants the plain. Unhappy whom to beds of pain, Arthritic tyranny consigns; Whom smiling nature courts in vain, Tho' rapture sings and beauty shines. Her wings imagination tries, Nor from the pleasing groves départ, Where wisdom first inform'd my heart. Will hope, vain fear, alike remov'd; When best enjoy'd-when most improv'd. The generous scorn of venal power, The silent grandeur of retreat. EXTRACT-ON CHESTERFIELD'S LETTERS. IF judgment, wit, and knowledge of mankind: Diversity. PARLIAMENTARY COMPLIMENTS. promifing them a fhilling when the job was completed. To work they would go, with much feeming gratitude and alacrityThe juftice ftayed by them, or vifited them from time to time till they had performed two thirds of their task; he then retired to a private corner or place of ef pial, in order to prevent them from flealing his tools, and there waited for what conftantly happened the moment he dif appeared, which was the elopement of his workmen, who, rather than complete the unfinished third of his work, chofe to give up what they had done.-This method, with fcarce one difappointment, the old justice long practised; till at length his fame having gone forth among the mendi. cant tribe, he was troubled with no more applications for charity. MR. PITT, (afterwards Earl of Chatham) in a debate with Lord Holland, took occafion, with great afperity, to fay, that nature had painted in his countenance the figns of a black and treacherous foul, and noticed the pent-houfe of his fullen eyebrows, his hard and unfocial front, and dark unblufhing cheeks. On this Lord Holland arofe, and complaining bitterly of the perfonal abufe, alledged that he could not help his look, as he had not made himself; and turning around to Mr. Pitt, faid, the honourable gentleman finds fault with my features, but how would he have me look? Mr. Pitt ftarting up, replied, "The honourable gentleman afks me how I would have him look? I would have him look as he ought, if he could-Itirement in a country houfe near Paris. would have him look as he cannot, if he would I would have him look like an honest man." To which Mr. Fox replied, "Difficult as the gentleman may think it for me to look like an honeft man, I am certain it is ftill more difficult, nay, absolutely impoffible, for him to act like one. As to my face, however fable the hue, it is not half fo black as his heart." [Gaz. U. States.] FROM THE GLASGOW COURIER. INDUSTRY THE CURE FOR POVERTY. "BEGGING being a trade, and a ve- "I remember to have heard of an old Gen. Kofciufco now lives in modeft re Since the fate of his native country was ultimately determined, it feems as if he was no longer the fame man; his looks, formerly pale and fallow, are now fresh and healthy. He now enters with gaiety on the common pleasures of life. He has ceafed to carry with him the fnuff-box, on which was painted a fhip fhattered by the ftorm, with the motto tc-" My poor country "His friends and countrymen at Paris regularly celebrate the anniverfary of his birth-day. [London Paper.] TERMS OF THE BALANCE. 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ON THE MORAL AND POLITICAL EF- THE that his child is prefent. But generálly it is not fufficient. The parent forms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the fame airs in the circle. of smaller slaves, gives loofe to the worst of paffions, and thus nurfed, educated and daily exerciled in tyranny, cannot but be ftamped by it with odious peculiarities. The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by fuch circumstances." ariftocracy; who have obtained for every HE United States exhibit a fpectacle fuch as is no where elfe to be found on the globe; nor indeed in the annals of history, either ancient or mod. ern. In this country, that profeffes the pureft republicanifm and a most facred regard for the rights of man, vaft multitudes of human creatures are held in bondage; and the laws entail flavery on their pofterity. This contradi&tion between. profeffion and practice is alfo connected with another abfurdity, that is equally great and glaring. Tho' the African Mr. Jefferson, in his Notes on Virginia, flaves are negotiable property, by the laws has the following remarks on this fubje&t. of the land, they are made a constitutional "There muft doubtless be an unhappy part of the body politic; infomuch that influence on the manners of our people five flaves are equal to three freemen in the produced by the existence of flavery a. apportionment of the reprefentatives to mong us. The whole commerce between Congrefs. According to this eftablish- master and flave is a perpetual exercife of ment in our national conftitution, a dif- the most boisterous paffions, the most untrict confifting only of a hundred planters remitting defpotifm on the one part, and or lords, who should each one own five degrading fubmiflion on the other. Our hundred negroes, would be entitled to the children fee this, and learn to imitate it; privilege of having a reprefentative to for man is an imitative animal. This Congrefs, equally to another diftri&t that quality is the germ of all education in fhould confift of thirty three thoufand free him. From his cradle to his grave he is people. But the climax of abfurdity af-learning to do what he fees others do. If cends ftill a ftep higher. The men who have gained an exclufive privilege by the conftitutional act of the nation; who have raifed themselves to the condition of a real a parent could find no motive either in his doubt, we are led to entertain an horrible idea of the banetul effects of flavery on the morals and habits, as well of the malters as of the flaves. Moft willingly is it acknowledged that there have been and are very excellent moral and political characters among the great flave-holders of the South but according to Mr. Jefferfon thefe are prodigies. They are rare inftances of a virtuous energy of mind, that is proof against the most powerful means of contamination and therefore do no wife affect the general argument. If, as Mr. Jefferfon avers, the whole commerce between mafter and flave is a perpetual exercife of the moft boisterous paffions, the most unremitting defpotifm on the one part, and degrading submission on the other; if the children of the great flave-holders are nurfed, educated and daily exercised in tyranny, and are unavoidably ftamped by it with odious peculiarities;it plainly follows that the exiflence of almost a million negro Alaves in the bofom of this country powerfully tends to form fuch manners and habits as are totally repugnant o the fpirit and principles of our free ́re publican government. [TO BE CONTINUED.] Political. FOR THE BALANCE. REMOVALS. [CONCLUDED.] BUT UT the fyftem of removals is of moft pernicious tendency, as regards that portion of the people who, though not the most numerous, will always be the bleffing, or curfe of the country. I mean the men of middling standing in focietyof middling information and middling influence. It is hardly worth while to mince the matter. Let us fcorn all flourifhing and canting, and stick to the plain truth. We do know, that a very great portion of the people vote as fome leading men of the neighborhood, town, county and ftate happen to have arranged matters." If the leading men of the ftate, or the very great men are found, there is certainly no danger; it the leading men of the county are found, the fafety is increafed; if thofe of the town and of each neighborhood are found, all goes on right. But the great men fill become corrupt, if there be any corruption in the country at all. Why is this? Because these great men are generally very ambitious, and heated by rivalfhip, adopt any means to fecure their ends : to witoffice. They have their minds bent upon their political promotion-they dread the difgrace of defeat, and the country's caufe is neglected, while thefe great men are contending. Still, however, we are pretty secure, fo long as those who arrange county matters are still found at the core. They nominate members of the legiflature; and if thefe members are difcreet and firm enough, there is no great danger; the laws will fill protect your rights. But if thefe are drawn into the vortex of corrupting ambition, the fcales are balanced. There is then nothing left but the better informed part of the yeomanry, the laft hope of liberty. Thefe, however, being but men, may be corrupted by ambition, fuited to their fituation, as well as the greater kind. When this is once effected, the whole body is fick.The mafs of the people hear the declamations of adverfe bar-room politicians, or freet-orators; they read the papers teeming with abufe and recrimination; they hear charges made and denied-facts ftated and contradicted; and where the truth and juftice lays, the unambitious honeft friend of his country feeks in vain! This is a true picture of our country at this day. Hefitation, confufion and diffraction, on all fides! Think you, my friend, that all this is occafioned by patriotism? Think yea that it is occafioned by a noble zeal for your liberties? No, no! Believe it -- not. It is THE LUST OF OFFICE, the bane of liberty, virtue and honefty.It has corrupted many, very many.-They bargain away your votes and their own.As low down as the conftable's office, you fee bargaining-for you fee it a matter of party, which is the fame thing. Can you wonder, if in this ftate of things, your true interefts are neglected? When every body is for himfelf, who fhall be for the public? There was enough of all this, before De Witt Clinton's Council, following Jefferson's example, commenced its career. But then the finishing touch was given. It was then declared openly, that capacity and faithfulnefs fhould be no longer a protection-that no difcrimination ought or fhould be made between the honeft or dishonest, the capable or incapable officers; all fhould be swept away without diftinction. Vice and virtue were at once confounded. Ability and weaknefs were placed on a level. Who will fupport Thomas Jefferfon, and all in authority under him ?-come to us, you fhall be exalted. Who will dare to deny his mafter, he fhall be debafed.-No fervices, even in the revolution-no talents, no integrity, fhall protect him. The call was understood, and fo numerous were the befiegers of the Council, that the ftoop of the Tontine, at Albany, actually was crushed with their weight. And this combination of the farcical and tragical was called Republicanifm! So Jeroboam cried, behold thy Gods. Ifrael, which brought thee up out of Egypt; and the people worthipped them. Thus are we now circumtanced; and how to regain the ground we have loft, is the most difficult enquiry of all; and becaule it is difficult to rectify the corrupted-or to reach the under ftandings of the diftracted multitude. WITHOUT enquiring into the mo tives which induced Mr. Paine to addrefs his fix extraordinary letters to the people of the United States; it feems to be high time at leaft, to difclofe to the world the effects which this man's general condu& and thefe letters in particnlar, have produced upon our people; never having feen Paine, I can be actuated by nothing arifing from the difgufting egotifm which every one complains of in his converfation. My opinions are formed upon his own words and works, and upon a knowl. edge of the political and religious creed of our native American Republicans; fince feventy fix it has been my pride to be one of this feet; I fhall remain one fo long as our native virtues and strength fhall be ex erted to protect us against fuch Foreign. ers and the infidious doctrines they avow! Revolution is this man's darling paffion! His ineffable vanity and arrogance has ftantly intruded him into fcenes of con vulfion-and if we could believe his fran. tic fcribblers he controuls the deftiny of the political world! con. Not fatisfied with this ideal importance, upon politics, he has filched from deifti. cal writers of a former age, the hackneyed doctrines of infidels, in hopes alfo to prof trate chriftianity, the fweeteft confolation of mankind! He has done more-he has fet up a standard for infidelity to rally round, and a precedent for ingratitude to fkulk into! In his Age of Reafon, he has reviled the religion of our country-in his letter to Gen. Washington, he has traduc ed his benefactor! but we thank God, that the religion of this western world is not to be overcome by the pigmy lucubrations of an unprincipled revolutionist! Our diligent and enlightened government will frown upon his diforganifing and officious impertinence, and the people will cry out with one voice, "away with fuch foreign mifcreants-Paine has been a Callender toward Washington, and Callender has been a Paine to Jefferfon." But let us turn this fellow round and fee what he has done he tells us that after he finished the revolution in America, he went to Europe! I would ask for what purpofe? If he real ly confiders himself an American citizen, why did he defert his favourite country, and deprive her of his immaculate energies. at a time when the conftitution was in the infancy of experiment? he has never dar ed to lay he was fent by the government as an agent of any kind, although he has the audacity to complain that the execu tive did not claim him when he was jeop. ardized in France by his own folly! NoThe actual caufe of his leaving this coun try at that time, was the very fame which brought him here in the first inftance-to partake in more revolutions! and in this movement we fee his own maxim verified, 66 that every vice has a virtue oppofed to it," for fo foon as our government affumed a fhape of virtuous energy, he fhrunk from its terrors, and haftened into the vor. tex of European infamy! his Rights of Man, addreffed to the people of England, is of the fame complexion-it unhinges the fundamental principles of American inde pendency-The natural right of every na tion to govern itself without the interfer ence of ftrangers. It goes to fap the foun dation upon which every well regulated political inflitution builds its hope of wealth, peace, and happiness! By flirring up dif content among the ignorant; by alarming the fears of the credulous; by mifrepre. fenting the motives and actions of men in |