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The Balance.

NEW-YORK, SEPTEMBER 26.

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pedition against England is to be fitted out.

portant faft that fome French veffels, with Our letters from Torbay ftate the imfleering fuch a courfe as to leave little troops on board, were a few days fince doubt of Ireland being their deftination. The force on board is not fuppofed to exceed 1500 men; fo that if they be really defined for Ireland, it is probable they are only a detachment of a fleet, it being very unlikely that fo fmall a number of troops would be employed upon an enterprize of fuch magnitude. Be this, however, as it taken, and whatever the object of the enmay, every neceffary precaution has been emy may be, we have no doubt of its being completely fruftrated.

FROM CAPE-FRANCOIS-Capt. Homil. ton, of the bri Gayofo, arrived at Quarantine in 22 days from Cape. Francois, informs, that the Black general Defalines was making preparations for attacking the Cape in 4 or 5 days after he failed, and Gen. Rochambeau was adopting the trongest defenfive measures. The French troops and inhabitants from Jeremie, had arrived at the Cape, having entirely evacuatad that place to the Brigands. The British blockading fquadron off the Cape, permit the troops to enter the harbour without moleftation. The moft diftreffing accounts were received from Port-Repub. lican, the inhabitants were entirely deftiby the blacks, into whofe hands they must tute of provifions, and clofely hemmed in fhortly fall, and become a facrifice to their vengeance, if they did not fpeedily aban- fome particulars, which if true, are imporPrivate letters from Paris, communicate don the place. The troops from thencetant, viz. that it is the defign of Bonaparte were daily looked for at the Cape-Provifions were very high, particularly flour, which was retailing at 45 and 50 dollars per barrel.

AUGUST 22.

not only to invade Great-Britain and Ireland, but to attack Malta and Gibraltar at the fame time-and that a force of 128,000 men is now affembled in Languedoc, Provence and Italy, for carrying these schemes

A Drove of cattle were killed and buri.into effe&t. Near Toulon and Marfeilles ed at Norfolk the 19th inft. on account of are 28,000 men, of whom, 1500 are horse their being infected with fome diftemper. artillery, equipped for a foreign expediThey belonged to a Mr. Moore, of Orange ion-Bonaparte in his next tour, it is addCounty, (N. C.) who had driven them toed, is to vifit St. Maloes and Bordeaux, Norfolk market for fale.

Copy of the Protest of John M. Forbes, Esq. Consul of the United States of America, near Hamburgh. By this public proteft be it known unto all whom it may concern, that on the 10th day of June, in the year of our Lord, one thoufand eight hundred and three, betore me John Herman Laughans, notary public, refiding and practising in the free imperial city of Hamburgh, by lawful authority duly admitted and fworn, perfonally came and appeared before me John M. Forbes, Efq. Conful of the United States of America near the free imperial city of Hamburgh, who did then and there fet forth and folemnly declared to me, the faid notary, that on the fifth day of June inftant, at about 3 of the clock in the afternoon, as the appearer has been informed, and verily believes, the American fchooner Aftrea, of Gloucefler, captain Charles Babfon, being off the harbour of Cuxhaven, and within the territorial limits of the city of Hamburgh, was forcibly entered by certain armed officers and feamen, whofe names are to the appearer unknown, belonging to his Britanic Majefty's trigate Amethyfte, capt. Campbell; that a feaman of the crew of the faid fch. Aftrea, named Wm. Brown, being a citizen of the U. States of America, and as the appearer verily believes a native of the town of Gloucefter, in the state of Maffachu fetts, was impreffed out of the faid fchooner Aftrea, on board the faid frigate the Amethyfte, ani! forcibly carried to fea in the fervice of bis Britannic Majefty, against the, will and confent of the faid William Brown, in violation of the right of protection and national hofpitality and of the ferritorial dominion of the free imperial city Hamburgh; Wherefore, the faid John M. Forbes, declared to proteft, and I the faid Notary at this fpecial inftance and request, have protefted, and by thefe prefents do molt folemnly protest against the faid Captainty, has given the moft unequivocal affuCampbell, and the officers and feamen of the faid frigate the Amerbyfte, and all oth ers whom it doth or may concern, for taking out of the faid fchooner, Aftrea, and forcibly impreffing into his Britannic Ma jefty's fervice, and carrying to fea the faid William Brown, a citizen of the United States of America, as well on the part and behalf of the owners of the faid fchooner Aftrea, for all damages and delays, which they or any of them have fuftained or may hereafter fuftain from or by reafon of the premifes, as for the indignity done to the United States of America, and the violation of that prote&tion to which the citizens of the faid ftates, and of all other nations in amity, have a rightful claim, as long as they peaceably demean themfelves within the Territorial limits of the free imperial city of Hamburgh.

(Signed) JOHN M. FORBES,

Consul of the United States of America.

LONDON, AUGUST 11.

The laft advices received by Government from Ruffia, we are happy to uncription. The Court of Peterburgh, bederfland, were of a very fatisfactory def. The Court of Peterburgh, become at length fenfible of its own true ntereft, and adopted a line of policy every way worthy of its fituation and char: after, we are informed hem good author

rances to our Government of the friendly difpofition of his Imperial Majefty to the great caufe in which this country is now embarked. The recent negociations, we believe, will be found to have producpledge of the friendfhip of that wife and ed this very important advantage; and as prudent Sovereign, we have reafon to expect that part of the Ruffian fleet which is now cruiling in the Baltic, will actually winter in this country.

It will be feen by our Naval Regifter, that an attempt has been made by fome of our gun-veffels on a number of the enemy's gun-boats, on the coaft of France. hand, but fome advices which have reachThe particulars have not yet come to hability of the greater part, if not the ed Dover and Deal, there is every pro whole of the flotilla, having been either funk or driven on fhore. The gun-boats, it is fuppofed, were proceeding to one of the rendezvous from which the grand ex

as well as Breft.

The accounts from Ireland yesterday and this morning are, we are forry to fay, of a lefs confolatory nature than they have been for fome time paft. Rumours of intended rifing are circulated, and attempts continue tinels. Scarcely a night paffes without to be made to affaffinate the yeomanry cenfome of them being fired at. Yet thefe themfelves the friends of freedom, the procowardly affallins are the men when syte

tectors of their country.

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At Litchfield, Connecticut, on the 23d ult. of a consumption, Mr CALEB CROSWELL, jun. of Catskill, aged 27.

"Life's little stage is a small eminence,

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Inch-high the grave above, that home of man, "Where dwells the multitude: We gaze around. "We read their monuments; we sigh; and while "We sigh, we sink; and are what we deplor'd: "Lamenting, or lamented, all our lot!!

EXTRACT.

THE EMIGRANT's GRAVE.

WHY mourn ye? why strew ye those flow'rets

around,

To yon new-sodded grave as your slow steps ad.

vance?

In yon new-sodded grave, (ever dear be the ground,)
Lies the stranger we lov'd the poor exile from
France.

And is the poor exile at rest from his woe?
No longer the sport of misfortune and chance?
Mourn on, village mourners, my tears too shall flow,
For the stranger ye lov'd, the poor exile of France.

Oh! kind was his nature, though bitter his fate,
And gay was his converse, tho' broken his heart.
No comfort, no hope, his own heart could elate;
Tho' comfort and hope he to all could impart.

Ever joyless himself in the joys of the plain,
Still foremost was he mirth and pleasure to raise,
And sad was his soul, yet how bithe was his strain,
When he sung the glad song of more fortunate
days!

One pleasure he knew-in his straw-cover'd shed,
For the snow-beaten beggar his faggot to trim,
One tear of delight he could drop on the bread
Which he shar'd with the poor, tho' still poorer
than him.

And when young bus death bed profuly so mant
Ev'ry gift, evry solace our hamlet could bring,
Me blest us with sighs which we thought were his
last,

But he still had a pray'r for his Country and King.

Poor exile adieu! undisturb'd be thy sleep
From the feast, from the wake, from the village-
green dance,

How oft shall we wander by moonlight to weep
O'er the stranger we lov'd, the poor exile of France.

To the church going bride shall thy mem'ry impart
One pang, as her eyes on thy cold relics glance,
One flower from her gariand, one tear from her
heart,

Shall drop on the grave of the exile of France.

FOR THE BALANCE.

A LITTLE SONG FOR DEMOCRATIC YOUTH.

The greater the Truth, the greater the Libel"Then reward Tom Paine, and indict the Bible.

TAG.

Diversity.

A LONDON paper enumerates the fol-
lowing among the curiofities that Bona-
parte brought from Egypt. 1. Six flasks
of the darkness which had for merly been
fpread over Egypt, hermetically fealed.
2. Several fine crocodiles, from whom it
is contemplated to form a fort of ftud in
the palace of St. Cloud-and in cafe the
breed can be propagated, the Abbe Sieyes
is to have charge of the education of the
defcendants. 3. A piece of Noah's Ark,
large enough to form a raft that will float
acrofs the Channel, in about 36 hours,
more or lefs. 4. A number of Hippopo.
tami, or fea horfes, caught on the banks
of the Nile, on which it is intended to
mount a troop of Marine Cavalry.
5 Several large Turtles, defcended from
the
great Tortoife, who according to E.
gyptian tradition carries the world on his
back. Thefe are fine Chicken Turtle,
who fwim very faft, and are each capable
of carrying a regiment of foldiers proper-
ly garrifoned, after the ancient manner
of placing caftles on the backs of cle-
phants. 6. A park of heavy artillery
formed from the iron which the prophet
Elifha made to fwim.

Thefe articles are all to be employed in
the intended invafion, and great calcula-
tions are made on their importance. They
excite much expectation in this country:
our women weep at the idea of being de-
voured by the crocodiles and our alder-
men's mouths water whenever the turtles
are mentioned.

It is faid that a handfome uniform is provided for the crocodiles, who are daily exercited in cork jackets, and go through their manœuvres with a dexterity and precly admirable.

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REPOSITORY.

HAIL SACRED POLITY, BY FREEDOM REAR'D!

HAIL SACRED FREEDOM, WHEN BY LAW RESTRAIN'D !"

BEATTIE.

Driginal Ellays.

HUDSON, (NEW-YORK) TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1803.

Hither the products of your closet-labors bring, Enrich our columns, and instruct mankind.

FOR THE BALANCE.

A PHILOSOPHICAL DEDUCTION FROM THE DOCTRINE OF MATERIALISM.

EVER

VFRY man in a free country, whether he be gentle or fimple, has an undoubted right to offer his wares at pub. lic market; and even though they fhould appear unfafhionable and bungling, if they had been wrought according to his best fkill, it would be cruelly hard to hils him out of the market-place.Juft fo it ought to be refpe&ting intelle&ual manufactures. If a man is perfuaded that he has started a good thought, or made an important and ufeful difcovery, and is confcientiously conftrained to difburden his mind, he feems entitled to indulgence and civil ufage, even though the thought fhould prove to be ftale, or the difcovery trivial

P and useless.

Without further prologue, information is refpe&fully given to the public, that a difcovery in natural philofophy has lately occurred to their humble fervant, which he verily believes to be in a manner new. -Even Newton in all his profound refearches, had probably overlooked it.After adjusting a single preliminary, I will proceed to the main subject.

cipating immortal fame are truly indefcribable: but I will not diffemble it, that however elated my own mind had been in the firft inftance-however, in the moment of new-born rapture, I might inftinctively have clapped my hand upon my forehead and fancied that I perceived immortal laurels budding and growing there, my towering hopes have been in no inconfiderable measure, bleighted by the following ominous incident.

Filled with the thoughts of my own growing importance, and conftrained to give fome vent to my delicious fenfations, I could think of no one fo proper for a confident and advifer, as my uncle Richard Sober. Uncle Richard has had excellent advantages of education-he has a trong mind, but his conceptions are fingular; and though a warm friend, within a very narrow circle, he feems to be disgusted with mankind generally, and his remarks upon them are, I conceive much two fevere.

Well, uncle Richard, faid I, there has occurred to me a wonderful diícovery in natural philofophy, and I confidently prefage that it will make my fortune and immortalize my name." I then proceeded to state to him minutely the nature of my difcovery and its probable importance to the human race; and, in the fullness of my heart, I could not help mentioning that my mind had fluctuated whether to tranf mit it to the English Royal Society, whether to communicate it to fome learned Society in this country, or whether to pub The dignified pride of a philofopher's lifh it in a newspaper ;-and that I had almind on originating a difcovery in the most concluded to have it published in the principles or operations of nature, and the Balance, believing that from thence it lufciousness of his ideas while fondly anti-might catch the notice of fome of the lite

rati and obtain a general circulation. In further opening the fecret receffes of my mind, I frankly declared that I had deliberated, whether to honour my production with my real name, or to publish it under a fictitious fignature; and that the latter method, all things duly confidered, had been preferred, because it might afford me a fund of amufement; as fome would impute this new philofophical difcovery to fome fellow of the Royal Society in England, or to fome academecian in Paris; others to fome diftinguished character in this country, who has reaped the first honours from feveral Univerfities: finally I remarked, that, after a thousand conjectures had been made, and a hundred pamphleteer and newspaperial battles had been fought in vindication of the oppofite prevailing opinions concerning the person of the author, I would then, to the aftonishment of both parties, come forward with my proper name, and fix the attention, as well of Europe, as of America on myself. This harangue, which, from a kind of preternatural flow of animal fpirits, I had delivered with uncommon fluency, was fucceeded by a long paufe. I had fixed my eyes ftedfaftly upon uncle Richard, and foon perceived in his countenance fuch fymptoms of dilapprobation, as ftung me to the very heart: at length, after I had urged him to give his opinion, he thus be

gan.

"Dear nephew, quoth uncle Richard, I thought you had more fenfe than to be a philofopher. Whip me any lon of mine, that fhould pretend to philofophy. Why, philofophers are more plenty, now-adays, than potatoes, but are much less valuable. Time was, when philofophy was held in

deferved veneration; when philofophers were rare, profound, and highly effecmed but now any empty fellow who has dipt into a few fuperficial books, inftantly dubs himself a philofopher, and deals out his dogmas with much more pompofity, than did Defcartes or Newton. Formerly, philofophy was ufefully and laudably employed as a hand-maid to religion; but now there flalks over the world a hide. ous monfter called philofophy, that furiously attacks the moft venerable, the moft facred inftitutions, and threatens to demoith the great pillars of morality and focial order. And how many do we behold opening ware houfes of philofophy, whofe whole ftock confifts of fcraps,

that the unprejudiced and impartial, muft
view it with admiration. In the federalifts
we find the firm and zealous advocates
of our conftitution--the fteady and refo.
lute defenders of the principles and fyft.
ems of Wafhington; and if it is the good
fortune of the United States, to efcape the
horrors of anarchy and diffolution, it
must be effected by the virtue, the talents,
the wisdom, and the united exertions of
the federalifts.

A PLOUGHMAN,
At his Def

refolute oppofition, reared a grand and beautiful edifice. To retard and interrupt the progrefs of this vaft defign, no talents were neceflary. The mereft clown on earth could mar and deface, and the greatest dunce could find fault with, and condemn the workmanfhip: But arduous and honorable was the ftruggle to defend it. This tafk devolved on the federalifts; and the future hiftorian will tell how faithful they performed it. After the conflitution was adopted, and it was found that open and direct oppofition could avail nothing, the antifederal or democratic party immediately turned their arms again f the government. Every measure, how. ever juft or neceffary, was violently op pofed and condemned. Perfons totally Mr. BLAKE, editor of the National Aegis, a very incapable of judging of the wifdom or policy of any tranfaction, could neverthelefs be taught to find fault with it. Indeed, oppofition and fault finding, were learnt by rote; and political parrots were found at all times and in all places, declaiming against lyftems they could the world has become too wife to be in- not comprehend-condemning measures fructed. If you have knowledge in any which they did not underftand--and cafuperior degree, keep it to yourself, as lumniating men with whom they were you would keep your watch, in a private unacquainted. No fooner was there a pocket. But, efpecially don't fet yourlelf plan of finance, a fyftem of jurifprudence, for a philofopher; I had rather see you or a mealure of national defence, propolhoneftly purfuing even the loweft ufetuled by the federalifts, than the whole demcalling that can be named."

fhreds and gleanings from infidel publicati ons? How many do we fee neglecting the proper bufinefs of their callings, demora lizing their neighbours, and wafting their time, in what their vanity calls philofophical difputes and difquifitions? Take my advice, nephew, and never affect to be more knowing than your neighbours:

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(TO BE CONTINUED.)

THE PLOUGHMAN,

FOR THE BALANCE.

Messrs. EDITORS,

W

HEN the democrats were in the muority, they had one fteady tafk to perform. One rigid rule governed all The watch-word was untheir condu&t. derflood throughout the ranks; and their whole chapter of inftructions confifted of but two words-oppofe government. To oppose government, was the fum total of the duty of a democrat. It was immaterial in what country he was born-what were his talents, or what was his charac.

ter.

Whether he was imported from Europe in the last fhip-or whether he was deftitute of both virtue and talents, was a matter of no confequence. If he could and would oppofe government, he was received by the democratic band with open arms. On the file of federalifm, different materials were required. The federalifts, in forming, adopting, and carrying into effect, the conflitution of the United States, had performed one of the nobleft and most important acts that the world ever witneffed. They had, amidst every difficuhy, and in defiance of a powerful and

high-toned democratic paper, published at Wor cester, Mass. took the liberty, on the commence ment of the present European conflict, to expres an opinion, that of the two nations, France had been the most blameable. Such an heterodox o pinion, was inmediately attacked by all the most violent democratic papers, from the Aurora downwards, and Mr. BLAKE was "mauled" by every jacobin cudgel in the union. For a consideralle time he contented himself with merely parrying some of the heaviest blows of the democratic ed itors, without making any general allusions to the party. At length, however, he has been driven to the necessity of defending himself from the attacks of the whole host of democracy. In the following publication, he discovers an independence highly honorable and, we confess, that he has treated his old friends with a severity which we do not recollect to have seen equalled, Edit. Bal]

From the National Aegis of Sept. 28. WE this week leave our readers to make their own reflections, on the great political events which are pailing before them. We once believed, that we might

ocratic party, from the higheit to the low.
eft, began to clamor against it. To op-
pofe was an cafy matter. It coft but little
trouble, and as I before obferved, no tal-
ents. The federal party was like the wife
man who wrote an excellent book-the
democratic faction, like the unlettered ide-
ot, who declared the wife man's book
good for nothing. Under circumstances
to favourable to anti-federalism, it is not
furprizing that the oppofition fhould have
gained ground, and finally become trium-exprefs an independent and unbiaffed e-
phant. But their triumph has been fuch
as no good man would envy them. It has
completely expofed their weakness and
ir competency. Poffeffed of ample power,
they find themfelves unable to advance a
fingle ftep with the govermental machine.
They have been fo long accustomed to op-
pofition that they know not how to pro-
cced. Too weak to form new fyftems, or
improve old ones, they excercife their
power in deftroying thofe of their prede.
ceffors. Unable to erect a hovel, they a-
mufe themselves with pulling down and
demolishing magnificient edifices. Not
content with proflrating more inferior ob-
jefts, they have laid violent hands on the
conftitution itself. Pillar after pillar is
demolished, and it is ferionfly to be appre.
hended that the whole beautiful fabrick will
eventually be levelled in the duft.

The federalifts are now the minority; and their prefent conduct, when compared with that of the old oppofition, forms fuch a friking and honorable contralt,

pinion, on any fubje&t of difcullion, not immediately connected with the affairs of our own government, without giving of fence, or exciting refentment, among the republican advocates for freedom of speech and liberty of confcience. But in this we have been molt egregioully deceived. We have been treading on dangerous ground, and have paffed beyond the con fines of our duty. We have heedlefsiy wandered from the courfe which had been marked out for us, and before we had perceived our aberration, we are detected in the encampment of the enemy. We are denounced as deferters from the republi can standard, and are fentenced to stripes, for this daftardly dereliction from duty!A file of able bodied veterans are drawa out to inflict the fentence, and the proces of punishment has already commenced. While pafling the gauntlet, and trembling under the lash of our infuriated executioners, it is decent and becoming and prudent, to cbferve a folemn and refpeful filence.

We bow with fubmiffion to our fate; we of Bonaparte,affifting the Irish Rebels, in
kifs the rod with meeknefs and humility-cutting the throats of every friend of gov
we implore compaffion for our weakness,
and forgiveness for our paft tranfgreflions.
It is in the very nature of revolutionary Re-
publicans to be kind and gentle hearted.
I they are easily exafperated they are as
eafily appealed. Supplication will difarm
their refentment, and contrition will fecure
their mercy. An imploring fufferer nev-
er dangled from the lamp-poit-the axe of
the guillotine never reddened with the
blood of a fupplicating victim!!-To the
friends and advocates of thefe merciful pro-
jectors, we look with confidence for all
reafonable favor, in the infli&tion of that
part of our punith: ment, which remains yet
to be performed. They will" pity
bity the
lifted whites of both our eyes!" Their for-
mer clemency has given us an allurance,

that there is no tincture of malice or revenge, in their manner of performing the tafk which has been affigned to them. Their juftice has been tempered with mercy-there has been no crimination or complaint,-no farcafic reproach,-no' feurrilous invective-no il natured abuse. We have heard of no fecret expreflions of refentment, we have witneffed no infidious efforts to check the currency of our paper, or to impeach the motives of our conduct. There have been no hints of corrupt apoftacy; no intimations of duplicity; no accufations of a treacherous coalefcence with the common enemy !! We have been told of no inquifitorial examinations, to afcertain the fcope and tenor of our opinions, no charge of Jilorting and mifiepresenting the opinions of others. Every meafure has been fair and honorable, and conciliatory and pac.c. Yet with all this humane and gentle treatment, fuch are the ftubborn materials of our compofition, that we continue refractory and obilinate in the parfait of our former opin ions. We are ready to make any honorable atonement for our fence, unless it be to promife an amendment. This we can never do, until fomething more efficacious than the chail fement we have already received, fhall happen to convince us of our eiror. We never committed to the cuflody of a party, our unalienable privilege of thinking; and until this is furrendered, it is impollible for us to give our affent to opinions, which we believe, in our confcience, to be erroneous and ill-founded. For the prefent, however, we will leave the field to more dexterous and accommodating politicians, and will ftand aloof as filent fpectators of the conflict.

If we should fee an army of half a million Frenchmen, fafely landed on the coaft of England, we shall not dare to express our apprehenfions of the iffue, beeufe perchance we may give offence to fome hu mane and generous Republican. If we fhould fee a detachment from the legions

ernment, who may chance to fall in their
way, we fhall not hazard an expreffion of
our abhorrence, becaufe, forfooth, they
will be restoring liberty and equality, to
this wretched and degraded people! If we
fhould fee the United Kingdoms, fubvert-
ed, and one grand and terrible Republic
erected on the ruins of the British Conftitu-
tion, it would be herefy to hint a fingle fear,
because no true Republican is permitted to
doubt the mildnefs, the moderation and ben.
evolence of the Full Conful of France.-
If we fhould fee our own peaceful fhores,
glittering with the pageantry of Gallic
arms, we muft welcome their approach,
and fing Hallelujahs at their fuccefs, be-
caufe they will bring us "glad tidings of
great joy, which shall be known to all
people."-Such is the enviable station to
which the Editor of a Republican paper is
exalted, if he means to accommodate him-
felf to the opinions of all of his party.

Reproachful and overbearing, they de-
mand a timid and fervile acquiefcence.
Impatient of control or contradiction, they
revolt at the appearance of refraint or re-
fiftance, Obflinate and unaccommodat-
ing, they require of every advocate of their
caufe, to become "like mere clay in the
hands of the potter !"

period of a little more than six years, namely, from June, 1789, to October, 1795, in which term of time, according to Predhome, who was a zealous actor in those horrid scenes, there perished, in France and its territories, two million twenty-nine thousand six hundred and six persons! including women and children, who, as well as men, were. in great numbers, led to execnica. And who is there, that having lived in this country, does not know that "a large portion of its inhabitants" had been so fascinated, that they justified and applauded the greatest attrocities of the French republic, and were deeply enamoured with that "Scarlet Whore,"* even at the times when she was perpetrating her macst horrid cruelties.

Wishing to be as brief as possible, we shall, at present, merely republish, for the satisfaction of the Barometer-correspondent, one or two short extracts from an oration on the anniversary of cur national independence-an oration composed and spoken at a time when more than a million of lives, under every species of cruelty, had already been sacrificed by the French revolution-an oration, spoken by a very distinguished file leader, by a demagogue who is now high in office, and who undoubtedly expressed the scatiments of most of his party, and consequently of "a large portion of the people of these states." The crator first addressd himself to Britain, in the following terms of reproach and contempt:

"Britannia, why art thou painted as a beautiful woman? Thou art become a In one infiance, at leaft, they are deceiv-fury in thy looks, thy hair is twisted snakes; ed. We fhall never yield to their opinions from the dread of their refentment; we fhall never abandon the ground we have taken, from the fear of being abandoned by those who, without provocation, have become our moit deadly and inveterate enecmies!

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thou haft a whip in thy hand. O thou foul witch, thou haggard form; fhew thyself on the canvafs as thou art, and deceive not with the femblance of what is amiable."

Nextly the orator, speaking of France, proceeded to remark

"Is not every heart warm? Is not every foul on fire in her caufe? Does the not occupy our best thoughts? Does not every pulfe best in unifon with the hopes of France?

"Be witnefs for me, fhades of night! be witnefs for me, beams of day! if I forget her caufe, it I do not deliberate with her fenate, if in imagination I do not advance with her to the field, if I do not fhare with her the blame of her errors, and rejoice in the glory of her councils.

"Numerous libations are this day poured out in thefe United States to the fuccefs of France. Let us pour out libations alfo. Let it be our language here as it is there vive la republique."

If this should not satisfy the Barometer corrcspondent, we will present him with several other nose gays, and leave him to regale his senses with their collected sweets.

By the opprobricus terms " Scarlet Whore," is not meant the French nation, but the bloody governments, in the various periods of the revolution which, under the cloak of republicanism, exercised a tyranny and perpetrated cruelties of the most horrible nature.

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