yet

than any we have felt. On this question party fpirit ought to fink and difap. pear. My opinions are well known, and are not likely to change, but I candidly, and with ali poflible fincerity declare my conviction to be clear that there will not be a diffenting voice in the Wellern Country if this course be taken.-That fo far as my own abilities go, they fhall be exerted to the utmoft to fupport; and I know that my friends on this floor with whom I have long thought and acted, have too high a regard for the national honour, and the best interests of their country to hesitate a moment in giving the fame pledge of their honeft determination to fupport and render these measures effe&tual, iftaken-call them ours, if you pleafe, we take the refponfibility, and leave the execution of them with you. For as to myfelf or, my friends, no agency is wifhed, except that of uniting with you in rouling the fpirit, and calling out the resources of the country to protect itfelf against ferious aggreffion, and the total fubjection and lois of the Western Country.

He then read the refolutions.-(Vide Balance, of March 1.

Mr. Wright faid he hoped it would not be the order for Monday; and as the gentleman had been indulged with an oppor tunity of advancing his fentiments at large.

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The Vice President interrupted him, and faid, that if thole oblervations were intendded to apply to the queftion, whether the refolution thould be the order for Monday, they would be proper, otherwite they would not be in order.

Mr. Nicholas faid he did not wish to go into any difcuffion of the merits of the refolutions. He merely withed to remaak, that the course purfued by the gentleman

upon

If you purfue this advice, and act this occafion, was altogether new and promptly and boldly upon it; if you take extraordinary. I prefume, faid he, that poffeffion, and prepare to maintain it; from the gentleman expects to derive some adthe very unanimity difplayed, you will have vantage from the adoption of this courfe. no war--you will meet no refiftance. In- If fo, he is quite welcome to any advantage deed a war may be faid to be already begun, which he can gain. I believe that the Afor hoftility of the worst kind on one fide merican people are too enlightened and too has been long in practice upon us, and our well informed to be deceived by any thing retaliation or refiftance will be juftified on which has been said, or by the novel courie every principle which has governed the which has been purfued. It is ufual when conduct of nations. If the Spaniards re- any bufinefs of fuch importance is about to fift you in taking poffeffion of what by be introduced, to give fome previous notreaty they have acknowledged to be yours, tice, in order that gentlemen may be preand what they now confefs does not belongpared to difcufs the fubject. Why the to them-the war certainly begins with them. Under all thefe circumftances, with thefe offers of fupport, could gentlemen doubt, could they venture to cry peace, peace, when there was no peace, but a fword!

Mr. R. entreated gentlemen to view and confider his propofed refolutions with candor. He declared his intentions to be folely the attainment of an object, the lofs of which would deftroy the country where he refided and hazard the union itfelt. If gentlemen thought the propofed means inadequate, he would agree to enlarge them with cheerfulnefs; all that he wilhed, was,

gentleman has thought proper to depart gentleman has thought proper to depart from it in the prefent inftance I cannot pretend to fay. However, all that I think important to fay at prefent, is in reply to the affertion, that we are not informed of the intention of

The Vice Prefident again interrupted him and faid that the question before the fenate was, whether the refolutions (hould be the order for Monday. Upon that quef tion, no remarks in reply to the gentleman from Pennfylvania could be admitted. If gentlemen were difpofed to difcufs the refolutions or to reply to any arguments which had been advanced by the mover,

The Vice Prefident faid it would not be in order, unlefs the prefent motion was first negatived.

The question was then taken and carried in the affirmative; and the fenate adjourned.

The following article has been omitted for several weeks; and it is now inserted to shew that the best informed men of the democratic sect, begin to turn with disgust from the visionary schemes and destructive projects of the Jeffersonians.

In the houfe of reprefentatives of the United States on the 18th of February,

Mr. Newton called for the order of the day on the report of the felect committee refpecting a repeal of the Act to establish a uniform lyftem of Bankruptcy.

Mr. Grifwold moved that the further confideration of that report, be poftponed until the first Tuefday in November next. His reafon for making the motion was, that the committee appointed to inquire whether any, and if any, what alterations or amendments are neceffary to be made in the A&t, might report. He thought that the queftion of repealing the law ought not to be taken till an opportunity had been given to fee whether the exifting objection might not be removed by amendments. This could not be done while the prefent queftion was pending before the house, becaufe the committee though it in vain to propofe amendments till the principle was fettled whether the law fhould be repealed.

which the merits of the Bankrupt Law Upon this motion a long debate arose in were largely difcuffed.

Mr. Mitchell, among others of the fame fide of the houfe, advocated the motion. He confidered that law as an experiment which had not yet been fairly tried, and he thought the bufinefs of repealing had gone far enough.-Laft year, faid he, we repealed a very important law, namely the act for

ed in this golden moment, which, if loft, never would return.

He faid he would delay the fenate no longer than to prefent his refolutions, and give notice that he would move to have them printed and made the order of the day for fome future day. For, as gentlemen had confented that this bufinefs fhould be no longer a fecret, they would now become the fubject of anple and able difcuffion.

would again be open.

Mr. Rofs faid he did not wish to preclude any obfervations which any gentleman might be difpofed to make, and if the gentleman from Virginia wifhed to reply to any thing which he had faid, he would withdraw the motion and give him an opportunity.

Mr. Nicholas faid he had no wish upon the fubject, and would fay nothing more.

repeal great alarm and agitation were exci ted in the country. We afterwards repealed another important law, eftablishing an excife upon carriages, ftills &c. A very great proportion of the country confidered this repeal as unwife, There is now before you a propofition to repeal the law establishing the mint. The merchants every part of the country have been alarmed with the apprehenfion that the difcriminating duties were to be abolished.

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And now they are threatened with a repeal of another very important law, the bankrupt aft. Will gentlemen put no bounds. to the work of deftruction? Shall we do nothing but prill down? &c. &c.

After a debate offeveral hours, the queftion' upon poftponing was taken by yeas and nays and carried, yeas 50 nays 39.

Be it our weekly task,

To note the passing tidings of the times.

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Hudson, March 22, 1803.

ANOTHER OLD SOLDIER TURNED ADRIFT!

Our illuftrious Prefident has removed Maj. John C. Ten Broeck from the office of Surveyor and Infpector of the port of Hudfon, and appointed Ifaac Dayton in his place. We did hope that we should never again have occafion to mention the name of the latter perfon in the Balance. But as often as our wife, juft and confiftent rulers give Ifaac Dayton confequence by putting him into office, we conceive it to be our duty to notice him.

Major Ten Broeck was an officer in the revolutionary war, in which he performed his part with honor to himfelt, and to the fatisfaction of his commander, General Washington, from whom he received, as a token of regard, the office of furveyor and infpector for this port. He was afterwards appointed collector of the internal revenue for this diftrict; and both offices barely yielded fupport for his family. On the commencement of the reign of reafon and philofophy, Dayton applied to Mr. Olgood, at New-York for the office of collector and obtained it. The internal revenue was abolished laft fummer, and Dayton's office expired in his hands. Up. on this, he pofted off to the city of Wafhington for the purpofe of obtaining, as was reported, the office of collector of the cuf toms, for this port. But this office was conceived to be too fat for him, and was therefore held in referve for fome other

good democrat. Yet our ferene prefident was willing to do fomething for Ifaac: Major Ten Broeck fill held the office given him by Washington; and he had been guilty of maintaining thofe genuine whig principles, with which he was infpired dur

This, with several other appointments, is officially announced in the National Intelligencer; but we understand Dayton has not yet received his commission-We mention this circumstance to prevent Holt's prevaricating as in the case of Mr. Thomas.

ing the revolution-he was a fupporter of the Conftitution-in fhort, he was a federalift. Mr. Jefferfon, therefore, with the advice and confent of the Senate, beftowed on Ifaac Dayton, than whom no man could be more unfit or undeferving, the office of furveyor and infpeftor. We prefume there is not an honeft man in this citv, who will approve of this procedure. Who can fupprefs his indignation, when he beholds a revolutionary patriot, amiable and refpectable, ejected from office to make room for the moft contemptible of beings.

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Sundry papers flate that TOM PAINE was lately drummed out of Trenton-tune Rogue's March."-He has fince vifited New-York; and, it is faid, walked round the battery, arm-in-arm with his good friend and fellow-labourer, Cheetham, fol. lowed by a multitude of hooting boys and chimney-fweeps.-It is to be hoped, that Paine will no longer complain of the ingratitude of Americans. Should be venture to fet his foot into New-England, he would doubtlefs meet with diftinguished

attention.

Extract of a letter received this morning from a correspondent in Savannah.

"March 4, 1803-On the 2d inft. an exprefs arrived here from the Governor of ifh Conful. Nothing as yet certainly tranfNew-Orleans with difpatches for the Spanpired with respect to their contents. Va. rious are the conjectures, and report fpeaks of the landing of fome French troops at the Floridas. Certainly people here who are difpofed to believe the adminiftration infallible, are in a high ftate of ferment and aların." [Evening Poft.]

Extract of a letter from New-Orleans, dated Feb. 1 ruary 17, 1803.

"Our laft advices put it beyond a doubt, that the French are now on the way to this place, and are looked for daily.rived, and feveral officers of inferior The baggage of the Prefect is already argrades." [Ibid.]

Captain Gardner, of the fhip America, in 30 days from Lifbon, informs, that on failed) a British packet had arrived at Lonthe 10th of February (the day before he don in 7 days from Falmouth, with intelligence that the French Senatus Confultum had refufed to confer on Bonaparte the title of EMPEROR OF THE GAULS." News had alfo reached Lifbon, that American veffels were excluded from the

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port of Cadiz in confequence of new regulations in the Spanish fyftem of quarantine. [Ibid.]

The Knell.

In this city, on Friday evening last, very suddenly, in the 16th year of her age, Miss CYNTHIA NICHOLS daugh er of Cap. Philo Nichols. On the Sabbath-afternoon, her remains were carried into the Presbyterian meeting-house, where a very pertinent discourse was delivered by Rev. Mr. Sears, to a numerous assembly of people, who manifested a seriousness, attention and synipathy, suitable to the affecting occasion.

The formidable disease, which made such sudden ravages, appeared to be originally nothing more than a local affection of the face. But by sudden cold roused to action a predisposition to that worst of inflamations the Erysipelas.

The sudden transition, in this instance, from the opening.bloom of youth to the state and mansions of the dead, recals to mind the beautiful lines of Dr. Beattie.

"Fair was the flower, and soft the vernal sky; Elate with hope, we deem'd no tempest nigh; When lo, a whirlwind's instantaneons gust, Left all its beauties withering in the dust." At Claverack, on the 14th inst. Mr. WILLIAM H. LUDLOW, an aged, worthy and respectable inhabitant of that town.

At Providence, state of Rhode Island, on the 26th of last month, in the 58th year of his age, the Rev. ENOS HITCHCOCK, Doctor of Divinity.

The Treath.

[The following ingenious Parody, is copied from "The Patriot," a new paper, published at U. tica.]

CALLENDER's COMPLAINT,

A PARODY.

After the important services performed by this Knight of the Quill, to effect the election of his then warmest friend to the presidency; to be denied his reward was abusive: who can refuse to hear his complaint?

SCENE RICHMOND.

Callender and Faster Dwight, or any other Demo. SINCERITY! is the subject of my story Sir, I cannot tell what you and other democrats think of government,

But for my single self, I'd rather starve in Richmond jail

Than live in awe of such a thing as a PHILOSO.

PHER.

I was born as good a democrat as Tom,
And so were you'; and we have wrote as well,
And we can both let fly the shafts of calumny as well
as he,

For once upon a time, when federal virtue triumph'd

Thomas said unto me, Callender! darest thou now, Leap with me into the "tempestuous sea of liberty,"

And swim-the Lord knows where ?

Upon the word accoutred as I was with "iron pen,"

I plunged in, and bade him follow,

And so indeed he did with many a timely doceur ;
And I did buffet it with many a rugged paragraph,
And stem'd it with success.

But e're we reach the point propros'd,
Thomas said unto me, help me Callender or I sink'
O! then it was, with pen thrice dipt in gall, I wrote
the Prospect

Which brought this Patriot to his wish'd for shore.
And now this man has become a president;
And Callender is but a wretched printer, who must
live in penury,

Whilst HE can touch ten thousand pounds a year.
He had an ague when he was Secretary,
And when he wrote Genet, I did mark, how he did
shake.

"Tis truth, the Secretary shook. His coward tongue dissembled.

Ah! and that pen of his, that once declar'd American Independence,

Was doom'd to write a libel on his thoughts.
Ye Gods it doth amaze me, that a man of such

AN HYEROGLYPHICAL WARNING.

AFTER fkinning the animal, they placed the skin, loofe and hanging in the form of a bag, upon fome flakes: then pouring water into it, they kindled a fire below, and thus made it ferve as a caldron or pot for the boiling of their victuals.Their bread confifted of oat-meal, baked into cakes on plates of iron.

Whether fuch food or fome other caufes fharpened the minds of the Scotch, it is certain that no modern nation of the fame number has produced fo many diftinguifhed geniufes in the arts and fciences, as Scotland.

IN the beginning of the 14th century Young Robert Bruce, afterward King of Scotland, having been detained in London in the court of Edward I, who intended to feize and imprifon him, and to put him to death; a friend of Bruce, perceiving his danger, and not daring to speak with him on the fubject, by realon that he was conftantly furrounded by the king's pies, he fell on the following expedient to give him warning that it was time to make his efcape. He fent him by a fervant a pair of gilt fpurs, and a purfe of gold, which he pretended to have borrowed from him; and left it to his fagacity to difcover the meaning of the prefent. Bruce immediately contrived the means of his efcape; and as the ground was at that time covered with fnow, he had the precaution, it is faid, to order his horfes to be fhod with their fhoes inverted, that he might deceive those who should track his path over the open fields or croís roads, through which he purpofed to travel. The expedienting lately returned from the General Court,

fucceeded; and he arrived fafe into his native country, to the great joy of the Scotch nation.

A TRIZE, DRAWN BY A BALL-TICKET.

A LATE London paper mentions, that Mifs Harrifon, whofe fortune is £75,000 three per cents, and will be £8000 per annum on the death of her mother-was at a ball, and, being deftitute of a partner, afked the master of the ceremonies for one; who prefented a young man of the name of Slater. fon of an apothecary at Margate: and that Mifs Harrifon liked him fo well, that the refolved to be his partner for life.

A SPEECH OF A KING OF ENGLAND.

SOME notion may be formed of the ftate of learning and language in England, four centuries ago, from the following fpeech of the duke of Lancafler, afterward Henry 4th, when he affumed the crown.

"In the name of the Fadher, Son, and Holy Ghoft, I Henry of Lancafler challenge this rewme of Ynglande, and the crown, with all their membris, and the appurtenances; als I that am defcendit by right line of the blode coming fro the gude king Henry therde, and throge that right that God of his grace hath fent me, with helpe of kyn, and of my frendes, to recover it; the which rewme was in poynt to be ondone by default of governance, and ondoing of the gude lawes."

PREVIOUS to the American revolu

tion, the Governors of the provinces in this country, who were appointed by the British executive, had the power of negativing the acts of the legiflatures; and when a governor figned a bill from the lower houfe, the court-phrafe was, that put his fiat to it.

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A reprefentative or affembly-man, hav

as it was then called, of one of the provin ces, was afked by an acquaintance concern. ing the progrefs and flue of a particular bill that had been pending. "It has paffed our house, (he replied,) and that's all; for the Governor ftands out, and wont put fire to it."

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No. IV.

HE ferious apprehenfions, expreffed by Mr. Jefferson in his Notes on Virginia, that "imported foreigners would bring with them the principles of the gov ernments they leave, or if able to throw them off, it would be in exchange for an unbounded licentioufnefs; and that they would infufe into our government their fpirit, warp and bias its direction, and render it a heterogeneous, incoherent, distracted mafs ;"-thefe apprehenfions, for the folid grounds of which he appealed to experience, have fince yielded to an oppofite fyftem of politics. In his message to the Congrefs, December 8th, 1801, he fays; "I cannot omit recommending a revifion of the laws of naturalization.-Confidering the ordinary chances of human life, a denial of citizenship under a refidence of fourteen years, is a denial to a great proportion of thofe who afk it; and controuls a policy purfued from their first fettlement, by men of these ftates, and ftill believed of confequence to their profperity. And fhall we refufe to the unhappy fugitives from diftrefs, that hofpitality which the favages of the wilderness extended to our fathers arriving in this land? Shall oppreffed humanity find no aflylum in this globe? The conftitution, indeed wifely provided, that, for admission to cer

tain offices of important truft, a refidence fhall be required fufficient to develope character and defign. But might not the general character and capabilities of a citizen be fafely communicated to every one manifefting a bona fide purpose of embarking his life and fortune, perma. nently with us ?"

I fhall forbear making any comments on the striking inconsistency of these fentiments of Mr. Jefferson with those which he formerly avowed. I fhall forbear to impeach his motives, or to urge the imimpeach his motives, or to urge the important circumstance, that he has seen fit to declare a radical change of opinion refpecting the admission of aliens to the rights of fuffrage, at a time when there was much more real danger from thofe people, than at any former periods; at a time, when, after "throwing off the principles of the governments they left, they had actually exchanged them for an unbounded licen. tiousness ;"-at a time too when thofe li. centious foreigners were to a man his declared admirers and partifans.-Paffing over thefe topics, let us proceed to weigh the recent fentiments of Mr. Jefferson in an even Balance. If they reft upon a folid foundation, they cannot be fubverted or weakened by free and frequent difcuffions; while on the other hand, if they be illfounded and fallacious, it is the duty of every intelligent friend of the country to expofe their fallacy to the utmost of his power; efpecially as, coming from fuch high authority, they are received by multitudes of people with a feemingly impli cit confidence, and have controuled & do controul the politics of our nation, in a very effential point.

that no perfon fhall be a representative in the Congrefs, who fhall not have been feven years a citizen of the United States: that no perfon fhall be a Senator who shall not have been nine years a citizen of the United States: and that no perfon, except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States at the time of the adoption of the conftitution, fhall be eligible to the office of prefident.

Now according to Mr. Jefferson, barely manifefting a real purpose of embarking their lives and fortunes permanently with us, or of fettling for life in this country, ought to be deemed fufficient to entitle imported foreigners of all defcriptions to a participation of the rights of fuffrage, and to every other privilege of citizens, except eligibility to the places of prefident and members of the fenate and house of representatives in Congrefs, from which they are exprefsly barred by the conftitution. This is "burfting open to them the doors of public confidence" as completely and widely as poffible; unlefs for their ac commodation the conflitution itself should

be altered: for furely it would require in

many cafes, neither fourteen, nor five, nor two years refidence, to manifeft a purpofe of fettling in this country--a refidence of two or three weeks, with the help of certificates and vouchers, might give full fatisfaction to the predominant party, on this point. And befides, it is worthy of confideration, that, according to the rule of naturalization which our president has propofed, the very worft clafs of emigrants would be earlier entitled to the rights of citizenship, than the beft; because there are none of them that can give such prompt and indubitable proof of a bona It is provided in the federal conftitution, fide purpose to embark their lives and for