upon the face of our country? Have not Americans, grofsly forgetful of the precious privileges in their native heritage, fondly panted for the leeks and onions of Europe? Is not even France, that great ftore-house of fin and witchcraft, propofed by many of our bawling patriots, as the beft model for American taith and practice? Yea, that famous hot-houfe of democracy, that boafted theme of jacobinic praise and eulogy, which humbly takes its law and gofpel from the fixed bayonet, and the glittering point of the Conful's [word! This is the nation, my friends, held up as a pattern of imitation, and to whom we are faid to owe a debt of gratitude furpaf. fing calculation-and a debt which ample payment can never cancel. Therefore, to lighten the enormous load, they have been kind enough to borrow twenty millions of dollars, (a-la-mode-de-Francois) with which they charge America, and give credit to themselves, according to the new method of book-keeping.-But is this gorgeous, patent, philofophical apparatus, already imported and ftored in America? Have the brazen engines of injuftice, flander, and infamy, hypocrify and deftruction, been put in operation at this age of our country? Look on the journals and documents at the city Washington, and then decide! * * * * * * ready to apply fpecifics from their infalli Let us therefore fearch for truth as for And again, have not the luxuries of life been exempted from taxation, to gratity the pampered lords of the fouth, while the falt and molaffes of the toiling hufbandman are yet clogged with impoft, "to eafe the mouth of labor, deftroy intoler-lated with fuch empty proteftations of ance, and restore harmony to focial inter- friendship. Such conduct in the Govern courfe?"-In fine, hath not the unrival- ment, and fuch correfpondent folly in the led philofopher, "the greatest man in A- people, have always confpired to ruin the merica," most cordially taken to his bof- republics of antiquity; and to prove, beom, and embraced with the fraternal hug, yond a doubt, that a nation, highly privi that putrid lump of atheism and blafphe-ledged in the enjoyment of facred and civ. my, Tom Paine-that beaftly fiend, the il liberty, and who will not fedulously door of whofe limbo fatan chalked upon ftrive to preserve them, deferve to be the wrong fide, to preferve him from the flaves. Gullotine, that he might fill up his meafure in the cause of democracy on this fide of the Atlantic ? What conclufion, therefore, my countrymen, must be drawn from the American portrait, if it bear fuch colouring? For though the foothfayers and magicians of modern Egypt may cry, peace, peace; yet the facred Oracles declare, that when the head is fick the whole heart is faint," and experience as fully declares, that when the head of a nation is distempered, with the vifionary schemes of giddy philofophy, the whole body politic will be tormented with convulfions, or fall a victim. to gradual confumption. And in the lat And in the lat ter cafe, it is often the haplefs fate of the patient, to think himself fecure till paft all remedy, repofing unbounded confidence. in quacks and mountebanks, who are ever Let us therefore (while we fuitably notice the importance of the day we now commemorate) remember, with hearts of gratitude, the tender mercies of our GOD, fo wonderfully fhewn in the obtainment of our darling Independence; endeavoring fo to improve its bleflings, as to enfure a continuance. Let us bear, at the fame time, the moft pointed difapprobation and abhorrence to vice and immorality, in all their forms; remembering, that righteousness exalteth a nation, and that fin is a reproach to any people." " Let virtue and merit be carefully fought for in their humble retreats, and always rewarded; while obtrufive venality and brazen impudence, meet the contempt they deferve. Let the golden privilege we enjoy, in the right of fuffrage, be ever guarded with a watchful eye and fingle heart, difclaiming every fpecies of bribery, corruption, animofity, and party rage. In short, let the GOD of our falvation be ever the fubject of our praife and adoration, and the peace and happiness of our fellow men the fecondary object of all our moral conduct. Thus may COLUMBIA, this dear-bought heritage of our Fathers, continue to rife in dignity and glory, til fhe bid defiance to all the tyrants of the earth, and to all deftroyers of the human race, but the laft fhock of time. As a teftimony of the high opinion of the gallant condu&t of Lt. DECATUR, H taking and destroying the frigate Philadel phia, a commiffion to him as Captain in the Navy has been iffued by the Prefident, and will without delay be transmitted to Commodore Preble to be prefented to him. The propofed amendment to the Conftitution has paffed the Legislature of S. Carolina. In the House of Reprefental tives, 65 to 23-in the Senate, 22 to 9. ༩ { ༡? ཱ ༦ )! G The Legislature of Connecticut have rejected the amendment. Yeas 77, Nays ATTROCIOUS MURDERERS. On the 6th of March, a gentleman was accofted in the ftreet of St. Martin, at Paris, by a beautiful little girl about 6 years of age. She was covered with rags, and told him that her mother was dying for want, in the fifth floor of a houfe in the fame freet, and that for herfelt, fhe had not ate a morfel for 48 hours. Touched with compaflion, the gentleman said he would follow her home, and if he found her story true, relieve her and her mother. On entering the room, he saw a lying on a bed, on fome ftraw, instead of a matrefs. Her looks and voice feemed to confirm the ftory of the child. In ta.. woman king his purfe from his pocket, it fell by king his purfe from his pocket, it fell by accident on the floor; ftooping to take it up, he faw clearly a man under the bed. Alarmed, but without loofing his prefence of mind, he faid-" good woman here are four crowns, I have no more upon me, but let your child accompany me home, I will give her twenty more." Inftead of returning to his lodgings, he took the child to a police commiffary, where after fome examination, the acknowledged that the perfon under the bed was her father, and that within the laft fortnight, during which they had lodged in the street St. Martins, fix perfons had been stabbed by him, plundered and ftripped; that two corpfes had been carried out by him after dark, fome nights before, and thrown into the river, but that four corpfes yet remained in the closet behind the bed. The police commiffary, with the gentleman, and fome gens d'armes, went immediately to the house, but they found nothing but the four corpfes in the clofet. The man and woman were gone, and have not fince been heard of. In confequence of the difcovery made by the child, fix former lodgings of this cruel couple have been traced, where, according to her report, and feveral other circumstances within the knowledge of the police, during the laft winter, no less than 22 perfons of both fexes are fuppofed to have been murdered by them.-It was the cuffom for the woman, as from gratitude, to take hold of her benefactor's hands, and draw them to her lips as the lay in bed, when the man ftole behind and flabbed them through their backs. Madame Murat has taken the child under protection, and pays for her education. DREADFUL CARNAGE. NEW-YORK, JUNE 4. The intelligence of the indifcriminate maffacre of the white French inhabitants of St. Domingo, is confirmed by the arrival at this port of the fehr Greyhound from Cape-Francois. Letters and verbal accounts of the paffengers who escaped agree in reprefenting it as one of the moft horrid which has occurred in modern times. It began on the 19th April, and continued without intermiflion until the 14th of May following. On the 23d of April Genera! DESSALINES iffued a proclamation, explanatory of his motives and of his future condu&. [The proclamation is unavoidably omitted this week, but will be published at length in our next.] On the 14th of May, when the Greyhound left the Cape, the infuriated foldiery had facrificed to their unrelenting policv not less than 2500 human beings. The work of deftruétion then ceafed from || neceffity, for no more victims remained to be affaffinated. The details we have received of thefe tranfactions are fhocking to the ear. Indeed, no language of which we are capable, can defcribe with accuracy the horrors of the carnage, which has no refpect to the infirmity of age or the innocency of childhood; but involved in one common ruin, and frequently with the fame fword, the infant fucking at the breaft, and the unoffending mother from whom it derived its nourishment. On the 14th of May, DESSALINES left the Cape by way of Port-de-Paix and Gonaives, for the purpose of enforcing the terms of a proclamation, which he had caused to be iffued in that part of the iland of St. Domingo inhabited by the Spaniards. [This Proclamation in our next.] He alfo ordered that the occupiers of houfes fhould move with all poffible speed to a ditch at the fide of a mountain, the dead bodies of the murdered which remained in the streets, that they might not be either devoured by the dogs or be luffered to produce a peftilence. The quantity of filver plate, jewellery, gold articles, &c. plundered from the dead and brought in by the negroes, was immenfe, and frequently offered for fale at half its value. On the 23d April Fort Dauphin was pillaged, a part of the town deftroyed, and the whites maffacred to the number of from 85 to go. A few days afterwards the French inhabitants of St. Jago, and other parts of the interior, were escorted to the Cape under a ftrong guard, and there butchered. A Danish fchooner, lying at the Cape, with paffengers from St. Thomas, was leized and every failor and paffenger on board maffacred. Of the white perfons who efcaped from the ifland almoft by miracle, feveral have arrived at this port in the Greyhound; 9 in the Almy which failed for New-York 6 days before the Greyhound, viz. Carne and daughter, Helin, Wife, and Son, d'Albre, Aftaix, Gabareau and wite; and in the Nancy, for Charleston, Meffrs. Oliver and Grofhon. THE BALANCE OFFICE, Will be removed in a few days, to the three-flory brick houfe belonging to Capt. Hezekiah Pinkham, next door below the New Market, near the City-Hall, and oppofite the Swan Tavern. As the proprietor is incurring confiderable expence, by enlarging his office, and extending his bufinefs, he requests that every cuftomer who is in arrear, will render him a little affist ance. The Wreath. COMMUNICATED FOR THE BALANCE. THE MAGPIE AND HER BROOD, From the new London Review-addressed to Miss Hotham, daughter to the Earl of Suffolk, aged ten years, by Lord Orford. How anxious is the tender parent's thought! ONCE on a time, a Magpie led Her little family from home, To teach them how to earn their bread, But Madge knew better things. Forth to the groves and springs. So must you too, come, hop away- Lord bless us, cried the peevish chits, How shall we 'scape the fowler's snare!. My dears, said she, and kiss'd their callow bills, The wise by foresight intercept their ills, And you from no dull lineage came. To fire a gun, it takes some time, The man must load, the man must prime, He lifts his piece, he winks his eye, Ah-but-But what? Why, if the clown Birds are not kill'd like cats. Still, good Mama, our case is hard, Indeed, my youngsters, Madge réplies, Go, cater where you list. Diversity. FROM A LIVERPOOL PAPER. Bob Roufem's epifile to Bonypart. THIS comes hoping you are well, as I am at this prefent; but I fay, Bony, what a d-d Lubber you must be to think of getting foundings among the English. I tell ye as how your Anchor will never hold; it isn't made of good Stuff, fo luff up Bony or you'll be faft aground before you know where you are. We don't mind your Palaver and Nonfenfe; for though it is all Wind, it would hardly fill the Stun'fails of an English Man of War. You'll never catch a Beeze to bring ve here as long as ye live, depend upon it. I'll give ye a piece of Advice now; do try to Lie as near the Truth as poflible, and don't give us any more of your Clinchers. I fay, do you remember how Lord Neifon came round ye at the Nile? I tell ye what, if you don't take Care what ye are about, you'll foon be afloat in a way you won't like, in a High Sea, upon a Grating my Boy, without a bit of foft Tommy to put into your Lanthren Jaws. I'll tell ye now how we shall fill up the Logbook if you come; I'll give ye the Journal, my Boy, with an Allowance for Lee-way and Variation that you don't expect. Now then, at Five, A. M. Bonypart's Cock-boats fent out to amufe our English Men of War with fighting, (that we like.) Six, A. M. Bonypart lands, (that is if he can) then we begin to blow the Grampus; Seven, A. M. Bonypart in a Pucker; Eight, A. M. Bonypart running away; Nine, A. M. Bonypart on board; Ten, A, M. Bony, part finking; Eleven, A. M. Bonypart in Davy's Locker MEREDIAN, Bonypart in the North corner of where it burns and freezes at the fame time; but you know any Port in a Storm, Rony, fo there I'll leave ye! Now you know what vou have to expect; fo you See as how you can't fay I din't sell ye. Come, I'l give ve a Toaft: Here's Hard Breezes and foul Weather to ye my Boy, in your Paf lage; Here's may you be Sea Sick; We'll foon make you Sick of the Sea; Here's may you never have a Friend here or a Bottle to give him. And to conclude; Here's the FRENCH FLAG where it ough to be, under the ENGLISH..... Original. HUDSON, (NEW-YORK) TUESDAY, JUNE 19, 1804. Hither the products of your closet-labors bring, FOR THE BALANCE. THE ELECTION; OR INFLUENCE BEHIND THE THRONE. WHE nough of stubborn honefty, and virtuous. HEN the ardor which a great After the nomination of Chancellor Lanfing had been made-after his acce ding to that nomination-and that not haf tily, his fuddenly declining was matter of furprize to men of all parties. It produced doubts whether the Chancellor was a man of a wavering, fickle difpofition, on the one hand, or, on the other, whether be could accept the government, with any honor, upon the terms propofed and explained after his nomination. We fay upon the terms propofed, because it is no longer a fecret, that in the government of this flate, public men who are intend. ed for important flations, are obliged ei ther to forego the gratification of their ambition, or to commit themselves to a certain defined courfe of political conduct. It seldom Happens that a democrat has e Colonel Bruyn is the only Senator from Ulfter. was again called upon to fet his nose upon the fcent of Clinton and Spencer's track. He again indignantly refufed to proftitute his independence, and, of course, the honor was conferred upon another of more accommodating principles. There are men who have thought-nay, it has been pretty confidently afferted, that Chancellor Lanfing, after consenting to his nomination, had been called upon by certain men, who conftitute, in this ftate, an influence fimilar to that, which, in England, in the time of Lord Bute, was termed the influence behind the Throne, and informed, that it was "expected" chat in the event of his election, he would be governed by fuch and fuch maxims-and regulate his adminiftration by the advice. of fuch and fuch perfons. It has been even infinuated that intimations to this extent had fallen from the Chancellor himfelt; but with what degree of truth, we know not. Nay, it has been further fuggefted, that he intended, after the election was decided, publicly to unfold the reafons of his extraordinary conduct. Whether the Chancellor had ever formed this refolution, we cannot determine. But that his mind is either firangely capricious, or nobly virtuous and independent, is certainly true. The facts we have related reflecting men to fuppofe, that if a Senain regard to Col. Bruyn, would incline tor, previous to being elected a member of who have obferved, that the immediate perfonal friends of the Chancellor, who have heretofore been extremely active on the democratic fide, were duliouily reu tral at the late election, which it is conceived, they would not have been, had they not been convinced that the Chancellor had been unjustly treated. And Lucas Elmendorff's letter, which declares the joy of the party at their getting "à new candidate, who would better attach and cherish the intereft of party," in connection with the other circumftances, is very strong evidence, that the Chancellor was queftioned in pretty much the fame terms, which were put to Col. Bruyn; and the prevailing opinion, therefore, feems to be, that the Chancellor, in the conflict which enfued in his mind, nobly followed the dictates of honor, at the expence of his ambition. Still, we muft confefs, that the whole affair is myfterious, and that an explanation from the Chancellor himself, appears to us to be the only thing which can difperfe the public doubts, and restore to his reputation its wonted commanding attitude. We can, indeed, conceive it poffible, although our furmifes may be correct, yet that a feeling of delicacy towards Judge Lewis, may restrain the Chancellor, inafmuch as a complete developement of the realons upon which he acted, might tend to prove, what Lucas Elmendorff pretty plainly declares, that the governor elect would be fubfervient to "the influence behind the Throne." We think, howev. er, that in an affair of fo much importance, the Chancellor ought to feel lefs folicitous for the character of Judge Lewis, than for the public good. To the community the developement is highly important. All real republicans and honeft patriots must feel deeply interelled in afcertaining with certainty wheth er thofe whom we elect to offices, are, in any inftance, fuffered to be guided by their own judgments, unbiaffed, unbribed, and uncontroled, or whether they are, in all cafes, the paffive inftruments of a few artful caballifts, and the adminiftration of courfe a faction. NO PARTY. Sele&ed. FROM THE FEDERAL GAZETTE. Messrs EDITORS, WHEN the relations of amity and friendfhip happily fubfift between two nations, to their mutual benefit and advantage, any atten pt at wantonly disturbing them, must be held in utter abhorrence and deteftation by every true lover of his country, whatever may be his political The prefident of the United States has Let this declaration on the part of the prefident which has been fanctioned by congrefs, be contrafted with the letter published, Meffrs. Elitors, in your paper of the 30th May, from Robert R. Livington, our minifter at Paris, to Mons. Talleyrand, refpecting the confpiracy alledged to have been fomented by the English minifter against the French Government; and the pity and indignation of every man, must be excited at this prepof. terous and fycophantic facrifice of the dignity and independence of our country, at the thrine of that military defpotifm which at prefent tules not only France, but which grafps at conquering the whole civilized world. Mr. Livingston is not content with merely congratulating the firft conful on the difcovery of the confpiracy against the prefent exifting state of things in France, but to gratify Bonaparte, he prostitutes his own independence and the dignity of A. merica by vilifying and abufing the English government for adopting thofe fteps, which France has unceasingly purlued, from the commencement of the revolution to this hour-And what has England attempted? why, to gain intelligence of the interior fituation of France and to overthrow that military defpotifm by which the French people are now fhackled, and which is convulfing all Europe. But is it not well. known, that in time of peace, as well as in war, France has been intriguing with the united Irifhmen, to bring about an infurrection against the English government? and yet, in the eyes of our fage ambassador, that line of conduct which it was perfectly proper in France to purfue against England, was calculated to "overturn focial order and to bring back nations to barbarim," when practifed by England against France, A pretty fort of logic, truly, and worthy of the new fchool altogether; and fo, then, when mine enemy fmites me on one cheek, I am not merely to turn the other to him, in chriftian meeknefs, but I am likewife, humbly, to thank him for such an inftance of his friendly folicitude for my welfare. Rifum teneatis? The old chancellor muft certainly be reduced to a fecond state of childhood, or we should not have feen fuchan in flance of imbecility and weakness instead of that manly deport ment which an independent mind would have evinced on fuch an occafion. The ambaffador likewife," in the name of his government:, offers the most fincere felicitations to the first conful for his happy efcape from the attempt directed not only against his life, but against an object more dear to his heart-the happiness of the nation of which he is the chief; the fruit of his noble labours in the field and in the cabinet." That the English government either have or ever would condefcend to hire affaffins to take the life of Bonaparte, and bring back the days of the Old Man of the Mountain, under which one of their own monarchs had nearly perish. ed, no well informed man can or will be lieve. If that had been their object, the employment of one, or, at moft, two ref olute em faries, would have been fufficient, and infured its fuccefs; but it appears by the inftructions Mr. Drake, it is faid, gave his agent, that no plan of that fort was in agitation; and the numerous arrests that have taken place in France puts the nature of the attempt paft all doubt. The English government might wish to facili tate the overthrow of the power of Bona parte, and in that they were perfectly justifiable by the law of nations, as well as by the example of France herfelf; but they never have or ever would countenance a confpiracy against his life and although it may he politic on the parte of Bonaparte to endeavor to imprefs this idea amongst the French, to ftrengthen his ufurpation and call from their recollection that he, like a fecond Cromwell, had trod their reprefentative government under foot; yet, that our minifter fhould have pledged his government to a declaration of this nature, is fuch an infult to the rights of another nation, and fuch an infrigement of the neutrality we are pledged to maintain, as could fearely be credited, but by his own declaration. But in this way has Mr. Livingflon procommitted his own dignityand the eflential interefts of his country, |