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The Wreath.

FROM THE PORT FOLIO.

MR. OLDSCHOOL,

I am told, that, because the weather looks a little squally, we shall, probably, be ordered to take all the rigging off their mast-beads, and haul up our vessels : this is not at all sailor-like. The Spaniards have shut us out of port, and we have dispatched a bomb-boat woman to ask the reason. I don't pretend to know much about these kind of matters; but I must say, that if any lubber chuse to be running foul of me, without reason, I should not stand palavering with him about it.

For your part, I know you to be an honest fellow, and that you would scorn to quit your ship, while a single timber of her floated; therefore, whenever you think it necessary to pipe all hands, you may give the following to my brother sailors, as the advice of their shipmate, BOB BUNTLINE.

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Once she gets in that bight, 'twixt you and me,
Columbia lags to leeward, do you see;
And, much I fear, if this report be true,
Will ne'er claw off with honour to her crew.

(bands the can to the next. )
What say ye, lads! do ye approve the notion,
To haul our ships ashore and quit the ocean,
And tamely see a Frenchman or a Spaniard,
Who scarcely knows a bowline from a lanyard,
Insult our country, and heap wrongs upon her,
Without one broadside for Columbia's honour?
Shall we, who've weather'd many a stubborn gale,
Dowse our top-gallants at a lubber's hail?
Or, when the scud drives fast, and billows roar,
Sculk in our hammocks, till the squall be o'er ?
What! quit the sea, because where one tar wins,
Mayhap a dozen lose their tops or fins!
And carry (to our country's glory strangers).
A press of sail to fly from trifling dangers?
No, damme! and your tempers well I know,
Ye'll ne'er crowd canvass to avoid a foe
Nor will ye, 'cause a few chance shot may fly,
E'er wish to lay our vessel high and dry,
Where ne'er again we'll to ourquarters stand,
Unless the Dons or Monseers come by land.
Who minds a squall? Our vessel's tight and trim,
Give her but sea-room, and no fear-she'll swim:
Or should an enemy our rights oppose,
Lie board and board with any of her foes.

;

We're told, that some on shore, who have direc-
tisn,

Say, Commerce is not worth a state's protection;
And that 'twould much increase Columbia's riches,
To haul her navy into docks and ditches!

But hold, avast!-don't think I'd mutinize;
No-mutineers I heartily despise ;

Lee lurches oft will happen to the best,
And, spite of skill, the ship may be distrest.
As yet we're safe-but ere a timber starts,
Coil up, my lads, this council in your hearts.
Without a cause, when sudden squalls assail,
Endanger not your spars by pressing sail :
But yet, mistake not catspaws for a gale.

When gloomy clouds the sea and sky deform,
When, loudly roaring, comes the furious storm;
And mountain surges threaten to overwhelm,
Let Resolution firmly take the helm ;

By Prudence' chart your course forever steer ;
Mind well that pilot, should he cry-no near;
O'er all the crew let Reason have command;
Keep your ship snug-all useless canvass hand.
But, for a foe, when sharp the yards you brace,
And hank for hank she weathers while you chace;
Though topmasts crack, and each sail seeks relief,
Ne'er fear, my hearties, to shake out a reef.
When HONOUR pipes, the ship may safely heel,
'Tis worse, by far, to shew her stern, than keel.
If such the course our country should pursue,
Give us but sea room, and her foe in view!
Her flag shall ride triumphant on the waves,
Or we, lamented, sink to noble graves.

Diversity.

ORIGIN OF THE WORD BEAUTY.

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CHARLES VII. King of France, hav-payable in quarterly advances.
ing given his miftrefs or concubine, Agnes
de Sorel, the caftle of Beaute, fhe was
called the Demoiselle de Beaute. This
introduced the term in France, and after-
ward in England. Thus it appears that
the word Beauty had but a fcurvy origi-

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No devils now affright us ;
And REASON, such her mighty power!
Has made e'en Paine delight us,

IN the time of Henry IV. of France, a famous phyfician having abjured Calvinifm, and embraced the Catholic faith, the King faid to Sully:-" Sully, my friend, thy religion is very fick; the physicians abandon it."

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་་ HAIL SACRED POLITY, BY FREEDOM REAR'D !

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

BEATTIE.

'Political.

FOR THE BALANCE.

HUDSON, (NEW-YORK) TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 1803.

ON THE IMPOLICY OF A SPEEDY ADMISSION OF ALIENS TO A PARTICIPATION OF THE RIGHTS OF SUFFRAGE.

THE

No. V.

HE pathetical appeal to the moral fenfibilities of the nation, which Mr. Jefferfon ufed as an enforcement to his recommendation of a fpeedy and almost immediate admiflion of foreigners to the rights of fuffrage, is worthy of particular notice." And fhall we refufe (he fays) to the unhappy fugitives from diftress, that kofpitality which the favages of the wilderness extended to our fathers arriving in this land ?"

The real force of this argument would operate in a direction entirely oppofite to the intention with which it has been urged. The various measures of hofpitality which have been extended to Europeans by the favages of the wilderness, have generally been meted to them again in fuch a manner as to have given them caufe, in the bitterness of their hearts, to curfe the day when those ftrangers were received with affection and confidence to their bofoms. In the islands of St. Domingo and Cuba, in South America and in Africa; many millions of the wretched natives have been either murdered or en flaved within the three laft centuries by European adventurers whom at firft they had received with unfufpecting confidence. And let the im. . menfe plains of Indoftan, watered with the tears and fertilized by the blood of its na

tive children, bear witness to the requitals || him liberal wages, does every thing toward of avaricious Europeans, for the hofpitali- him that hofpitality requires; and if this ty they had received, and the kindneffes ftranger, after a fhort refidence, fhould which had been heaped upon them. In- infolently demand a participation in the deed it is granted with pleasure and with government of the family, he would depride, that our fathers arriving in this ferve to be turned out of doors. Now land requited the hofpitality of the favages this feems to be an exact miniature of the whofe territories they intended to poffefs, fubject that we have been viewing on a with a degree of equity; and that the first large fcale. This whole nation is, in a European fettlements in New-England, as fenfe, but one great family, diftinguished well as in Pennsylvania, under the direc- from all the nations and families of the tion of the excellent William Penn, were earth by the ftructure of its government made by a fair purchase of the Indians. and by the peculiar nature of its regulaYet the pofterity of those Indians have extions, laws and cuftoms.-Far be it from perienced the rueful effects of the eafy crethe writer of this, that he should feel or dulity of their fathers: overwhelmed by a ai to excite any prejudice, much lefs fuperior power, loaded with fcorn and animofity against the people of other nacontempt-their hunting grounds feized, tions their spirits broken, their health impaired and their morals corrupted by the poifon that flows from our diftilleries; they have been conftantly and rapidly wafting in numbers and ftrength, and are threatened with a total and speedy extinction from

the face of the earth.

It is no wife, however, the defign of thefe effays to oppofe or difcourage, in a general view, a hofpitable reception and ufage of foreigners coming among us.This point has never been contefted. The great and only question is, shall foreigners be fpeedily admitted to the rights of fuffrage, and to a confequent participation in the national fovereignty.-Mr. Jefferfon certainly must have known that hofpitality and naturalization are things effentially different; and that the former may be exercifed in its utmost extent, even where the latter is refused. A man that receives a neceffitous ftranger into his house, finds him bed and board, employs him and pays

or that he fhould wifh to abridge them of any rights which they can enjoy in this country, confiflently with the public peace and fafety. It is not forgotten that the brave Montgomery, a native of Ireland, led an American army to the plains of Abram, and was flain while valiantly fighting for the liberties of this country. It is not forgotten that feveral deferving officers and many brave foldiers in the armies of the immortal Washington, were of foreign extraction, and fome of them, then but lately come over. It is not denied, but readily granted, that there are now many excellent people in this country, who emigrated, and fome of them lately, from the various parts of Europe: but ftill our arguments against the speedy admiffion of emigrants from foreign nations to the rights of citizenship remain unfhaken.

Emigrants from foreign countries who have lately landed on our shores, are mostly of two oppofite defcriptions. Some

ed to tear the bowels of their own coun.

FOR THE BALANCE.

Νο. Ι.
"Who has not heard of Reynard's crafty tricks,
His pride, his rapine and his politics?"

CHURCHILL.

TO AMBROSE SPENCER, Esq.
SIR,

YOU

of them bring with them a ftrong and in-
vincible attachment to the monarchical
and aristocratical governments they leave:
and thefe will naturally defpise our re-
publican inflitutions; and are therefore
unfit to have an agency in our elections.
The other clafs, which is unfpeakably the
moft numerous, confifts of those whofe
minds are fet afloat from all reftraints, by
having imbibed the diforganizing princi-
ples of revolutionary France; and who
bring with them an implacable hatred of
the civil inflitutions of the nations they to perm to the public an important du-
OU have conftrained me at laft
have left. And are thefe proper materi-
ty, which, but for the fimulants you
als for building up our republic; or can
have adminiflered, would have been delay.
it be expected that men who have attempted, and perhaps might finally have been
try, will inftantly become quiet citizens
by being adopted in this ?-As well might
we expect to gather grapes of thorns, or
figs of thiftles.-The fubje&t that I have
been difcufling is of vaft importance to
the people of the United States; and it is
folemnly enforced by a recurrence to an-
cient hiftory. Not to mention other fallen
republics, the page of hiftory informs us
that one immediate caufe of the lofs of Ro-
man liberty was the incorporating of vaft
numbers of aliens with the republic.-
These were made fubfervient to the ambi.
tion of Cæfar. That arch-demagogue,
that fly hypocrite and flatterer of the peo-
ple, fubdued the Roman Senate, fubvert-
ed the republic and annihilated the liber-punity at the bofoms of your marked vic-
ties of his country, by the help of an army
compofed principally of defperate adven-

pe

neglected. That fin of omiflion you have
prevented; and it will never be recorded
against me. "Partial evil (Pope fays) is
univerfal good." Whether this be or be
not a general truth, the fentiment as it ref-
pects the particular cafe between us will
prove correct; at least I will ufe my en-
deavours that benefits may accrue to the
public from the grofs infults which I have
experienced from you.

Intrenched in the privileges of your of-
fice, you may have indulged an idea that,
with one hand, you could brandifh the ter-
rors of the British common law, and, with
the other, could empty your quiver of its
envenomed darts, and hurl them with im

tims. Deluded man!-Already are you feized with an arm that you can neither turers from abroad, This article of Ro- refift nor elude; already are you dragged man history fhould be improved as a Bea- before the awful tribunal of public opinion, con to direct the councils of our nation. where you fhall be held till you experiThe foreigners now in our country are no ence a proper measure of the feelings of fewer, it is faid, than feveral hundred Belshazzar when he faw the hand-writing thousands ;-their numbers are conftanton the wall. Be not furprized that my ly and rapidly increafing; and amid the abhorrence of your political character conflict of parties, their influence is (which I frankly own is quickened into culiarly dangerous. It a predominant paraction by the grofs and unmerited perfonty fhould facilitate their naturalization with al abufes I have received) fhould cause me, a view to obtain their fuffrages, it will be in this correfpondence, to hold a language ufing a terrible machine that would moft of feverity and reproach to which I had not been accustomed. The character of certainly recoil upon the hand that holds it; for the next fucceeding party that moderation I claim and challenge to myfhould predominate might try the fame felf; and confidently appeal to the generexpedient; and fo proceed in fucceffion, al tenor of my paft behaviour and to my till our elections having become utterly writings; but I now give fair warning to corrupted and our public councils dif-yourfelf and to the public, that in my adtracted, fome Cæfar, crafty, bold and energetic, erecting his own popularity by flattering the vilell of the people, and aided by foreign adventurers and unprincipled naives, fhall fuddenly overthrow this republic, and establish, as in France, a military defpotism.

ONE OF THE PEOPLE.

A VERY fenfible writer, once compared ajacobin to a hog in a flower garden.

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dreffes to you I fhall depart from my u-
fual moderation, but not from truth.
will pourtray your political character in
true, but vivid colours.

Juftice to myfelf demands, that I fhould
beflow fome particular attention on the
calumnies vented against me over the fig.
nature of Scrutator. This part of my
tafk, which will fall principally within
the compafs of this addrefs, I fhall dif-
patch as fpeedily as poffible. Indeed a
mere annunciation to the public of the
name of the author of thofe malicious af-

perfions might be a fufficient antidote to their poifon. It might be enough to declare publickly that they have flown from

the

pen of Ambrofe Spencer, a name already notorious-a name, the ravishing flavour of which will fill be further diffufed abroad till the whole American atmofphere fhall be loaded with its fweets.

In your fingular production in the Bee, figned Scrutator, you have beftowed very high compliments and encomiums úpon yourfelf. You have daubed the varnish of flattery upon your own dear perfon, not with the kill of an artift, but as a bricklayer throws on mortar with a trowel. In

removing this varnish fo that the genuine features of your fweet vifage may feast the eyes of an admiring public, I fhall be compelled hereafter to use the inftrument called a fcraper :-at prefent, I will merely notice, and that with great brevity, your allegations and calumnies against myself.

The first crime with which you have. charged me, is, that I am the fuppofed writer of ftri&tures in the Balance Clofet, entitled" Liberty of the Prefs." Thofe ftri&tures I highly approve. They do not lavifh on the Attorney-General "the rarcorous ebullitions of wrath," but are fair appeals to fubflantial documents, which prove to a demonftration that the Attorney-General has acted totally inconfiflent, as well with himfelt as with the republican principles which he oftentatiously proteff. es. I have not, however, the merit of their compofition-I was not their writer. This circumftance I do not mention to foothe your animofity, or to conciliate your favour; for your enmity and your triendfhip I equally defpife.

Your next accufation which I fhall deign to notice at prefent, reprefents in fubftance, that the paper, whereof I am one of the editors, commenced with fair profeflions of moderation and candour, but has degenerated into a corrupt and abominable vehicle that weekly diffufes abroad the most malicious revilings, falfhoods and flanders against the prefident of the United States, and against the officers generally in and under the prefent adminiflra

tion.

The Balance was inftituted in the month of May, 1801, very foon after we had firft received the fmooth and foothing inaugural fpeech of the Prefident. Foftering at that time a ftrong hope that his adminiftration would confiderably accord with his profeffions, and that he would fhew himfelf the patron and common father of the nation, our paper had the complexion almoft of neutrality, as it refpected the two political parties. Soon, however, the leafing illufion vanifhed. With aftonfhment we heard one half the nation denounced by the higheft authority, as fectaries-doomed to bear the opprobium

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FOR THE BALANCE.

SHORT SKETCHES OF THE LIFE OF SHAKES.

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The plain language of all this is,-break your treaty with us--capture our fhipsIT is well recollected, that when the pre-plunder us of our property, beat and impri

fent ruling party were the minority, they uniformly manifefted a ftrong anxiety that the government of the United States (hould HE immortal bard, William afford affiftance for the promotion of the Shakespeare, was born at Stratford in War. cause of liberty in France. This difpofiwickshire, in the year 1564. His father tion was ftrikingly difplayed by Mr. Monroe when minifter to that country, and by who was a wool-dealer and in circumftances not very affluent, was obliged to with- the support and approbation which his draw young William very early from a conduct received from the Jeffersonian free school to which he had been sent in fect after he had been difmiffed by prefiorder to have his affiftance toward fupport- dent Washington, and alfo by the appointing the reft of his numerous family. Up- ment, which he has lately received, of on his leaving the grammar fchool, he minifter extraordinary to the courts of betook himself to the employment in which France, Spain, or wherever he may find his his father had been bred he married fervices required. Mr. Monroe was entrusted with the conduct of our most important young, and might perhaps have continued in the occupation of buying and felling concerns, when they demanded prudence, wool, all his life-time, but for an inftance found difcretion, and firmness; but he of mifconduct which obliged him to ab. manifefted fuch entire deftitution of these fcond. He had affociated himfelf with requifites, as involved this country in much fome young men of a profligate charac- difficulty, and, but for his recal, might ter, who infligated him to join them in have produced our rain. To plunge this ftealing deer from a park of fir Thomas country into the war with France againft Lucy. To avoid the punishment that England, and most of the nations of Euthreatened him from the detection of this rope, was an object fairly evinced, and omisdeed, young Shakespeare fled to Lon-penly advocated.-It was ftrongly urged, don; where, being a stranger, deftitute both of money and friends and pinched with hunger, he took his ftand at the play-houfe door. At that time, neither coach nor chaife was known in England: the lords and gentlemen were accustomed to ride to the theatre on horse-back, with their ladies and daughters behind them on pillions.* Shakespeare, ftanding at the play-houfe door, took the horfes of the gentlemen who attended the plays; and from the few pence which they bestowed upon him, he was relieved from hunger. His diligence and fidelity in this occupation were remarked; and as he had foon more business than he was able to attend to perfonally, he hired boys to ferve under him. It was not, however, his deft ny to continue long in this mean employment; for fome of the players accidentaily converfing with him, were fo ftruck with the brilliancy of his wit, that they recommended him to the managers of the play houfe; where being admitted at first in a very low ftation, he foon diftinguifhed himself, tho' not as an excellent actor, yet as the most captivating of writers.

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that the U. States fhould afford men and
money, for the affiftance of our " dear al-
lies," and it was generally offered by Mr.
Monroe, to give up a neceflary and im-
portant right, guarantied by our then exist-
ing treaty with France; and alfo to open
not only our public treasury, but also those
of the ftates, and of individuals, to aid
French rapacity in enflaving and plunder-
ing the other nations of Europe. This is
evident in almost every page of Mr. Mon-
roe's defence. A few extracts however,
will fuffice, to evince his zeal to promote
the intereft of his country.

fon our feamen, and if, on confideration, it is of any benefit to the REPUBLIC, we fhall bear it with PLeasure. This was the language of an American Minifter!-and that minifter is again fent to the fame country, with two millions of dollars to purchasewhat ?-the permiffion of enjoying our own rights!!!

But again-Mr. Monroe wrote thus to the Secretary of State, on the 20th Nov.

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war against England in particular; but "that they were diftreffed for funds, and "afked could any aid be obtained from "the United States? I told them I was "fatisfied if it was in their power, it would "be rendered." This, it will be noted, was after our declaration of Neutrality.

In his fubfequent communication to the deplomatic members of the committee of public fafety, he observes,

"It is the wifh of the French Republic "to obtain, by loan, a fum of money from "the United States of America to enable "it to profecute the war.

"This is to be expected from three "fources; the General government, the "State governments and from individuals.

"The French caule and the French na"tion are greatly regarded in America, "and I am perfuaded fome money may be

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obtained, and perhaps a very refpecta"ble fum from the three fources above " mentioned."

Thus it was that Mr. Monroe's communications to the French Government con

Thus he wrote to the committee of pub- ftantly encouraged the hope, that the Unilic fafety Oct. 15, 1794.

"It is my duty to inform you that I am "under no inftruction to complain of, or request the repeal of, the decree author

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ifing a departure from the 23 and 24 ar"ticles of the treaty of amity and com"merce;" [thefe articles ftipulated, that free ships fhall make free goods, and that all goods fhall be free except thofe that are termed contraband; and specified what articles fhall be deemed contraband. The French government had paffed a decree authorizing their fhips, privateers, and cruizers to pay no attention to thefe articles, and thus let loose their whole naval force upon our defenceless commerce,]" on "the contrary I well know, that if upon "confideration, after the experiment made, you should be of opinion, that it produces any folid benefit to the Republic, the

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ted States would contribute to fupport the expenfes of the war, and in the reprefentations to his own government he strongly and conftantly urged the meafure. He fays to the Secretary of State-" I fincerely with we may afflift them it poffible, "and am perfuaded the people would cheerfully bear a tax, the product of "which was to be applied to the French Republic," and then tells the committee of public fafety, that "the fum which might "be raised in America, would, in his judg ment, be confiderable"

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All this Mr. Monroe well knew, was a direct departure from our neutral declaration, and the courfe we were bund to purfue; but it was a favorite plan of the Jefferfon party to lend money to France, and involve the country in the war. The fuccefs of this plan however, was fruftrated by

Prefident Washington, and the mortification and regret of the party have been eminently confpicuons. Now raifed to power they feem determined to persevere in their fyftem, fo far as circumftances will allow, and Mr. Monroe has already departed with two millions of dollars to be expended, as he fhall judge proper, among our "good allies" and "generous friends," the French.

Ele.tioneering.

At a numerous and refpectable meeting of the Federalifts of the city of Hudjon, at the Houfe of Stephen Booth, Innkeeper in the faid city, on Monday Evening, March 21, 1803.

S. PADDOCK was elected Chairman. H. L. HOSMER, Secretary. Pesolved unanimously, That the following persons be supported at the city election, to be held on the first Tuesday in April next, as candidates for the several offices annexed to their names respectively.

Cotton Gelfton, Supervisor.
Samuel Edmonds,

Daniel Penfield,

James Hvatt, Thomas Power,

Aldermen.

Profper Hofmer,

Ebenezer Rand,

Claudius I. Delamater,

Affiftants.

Jonathan Begraft,

Samuel Edmonds,

William S'ade,

Thomas Whiddock,

A fors.

James I. Morrifon,

Henry Plafs,

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Be it our weekly task,

To note the passing tidings of the times.

Hudson, April 5, 1803.

Since writing the following, it has been fuggefted to us, that the fcandalous publication in the Bee refpecting Major Ten Broeck, was a mere ELECTIONEER

ING FALSHOOD; and that it would probably be corrected after the election. We should be unwilling to believe that any man or party could be guilty of fuch baseness; but we fincerely hope that Holt will make an early and ample apology for publifhing the production.

We prefume our readers will not deem. any part of our paper mifemployed, which is devoted to the defence of an honest man, against the bafe and malicious attacks of an hired finderer. We did hope that the perfecuting (pirit of democracy would be fatisfied with the removal of Major Ten Broeck. But, no! The editor of the Bee, with all that meanness and hardihood which ever characterised his paper, has aimed a deadly blow at the reputation of that much. injured revolutionary patriot. Therefore, although we regret the neceffity-fill, fince the neceffity exifts, we interpofe with pleasure, the fhield of defence.

By what authority or right does the editor of the Bee pronounce Major Ten Broeck a public delinquent ? By the fame authority that an incendiary lays in afhes a flourishing village. By the fame right Sylvanus Macey, Overfeer of the Poor. that a highwayman robs the traveller of

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friends, three feveral times, fuch documents and vouchers as he thought neceffary for the purpose. Thefe, however, were not deemed fufficient; and his own perfonal attendance was required. Some time in January laft, he repaired to NewYork-waited on the fupervifor; and, after a long and careful examination, fettled his accounts-paid every cent that remained due, and took up his bonds.And yet, this is the man whom the editor of the Bee has the effrontery to term a public delinquent! Nay, democratic villainy does not ftop even here: We are next told, that Mr. Jefferfon removed Major Ten Broeck from the office of furveyor and inspector-because he was a delinquent in the office of collector of the internal revenue ;-that is, Mr. Jefferfon, in March, turned a man out of office for delinquency, who had proved himfeif honeft and not a delinquent, in January preceding. This is genuine democratic juftice, virtue and confiftency!

One circumftance in the removal of Maj. Ten Broeck from the collectorship, deferves fome notice. At the time of his removal, he held uncollected bonds, the premium on which amounted to upwards of

350 dollars. This money he had earn. ed. But he was compelled to give up the bonds to his fucceffor, together with the emoluments which would have arifen from their collection. But this, Mr. Bee will tell us, was all right, confidering that Maj. Ten Broeck is an old Tory, and Dayton a first-rate patriot and republican.

Holt, perfevering to the end as he bedebted to the editors of the Balance for gan, fays that Major Ten Broeck is inthe abufe and calumny which has been bestowed upon him by the Bee; and that by cenfuring Dayton we have "goaded and provoked the republicans [democrats] to blat Major Ten Broeck's reputation." This is another of the paltry tricks of democracy; and is intended as a bugbear to frighten us into filence with respect to Dayton. But Mr. Holt and Mr. Dayton are informed that Maj. Ten Broeck and his friends do not wish to fhrink from inveftigation. The more their conduct is examined, the more honourable it will appear. And, fince we have an opportunity, we will now avow our motives for bring

a moment after afcertaining the true fitua-ing Major Ten Broeck before the public tion of his accounts, by perfonal attendance at the fupervifor's office. We readily acknowledge that his accounts remained unfettled for fome time after his removal; but when the caules are made known, no blame will attach to him on that account.-Major Ten Broeck con ceived that there was a material error in the fupervifor's accounts, which he fuppofed might be fet right by explanation.He therefore fent to New-York, by his

in print.-Certain democrats in this city, men from whom we ought to expect better things, have retailed, in malignant whif pers, the moft fcandalous tales of Major Ten Broeck. The poifon was thus fecretly administered without the poffibility of an antidote. The flander of tattlers, cannot be refuted. We, therefore, brought the affair to public view. We provoked the enemies of Major Ten Broeck to make their charges publicly, that we might as

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