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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,

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ready to apply fpecifics from their infalli
ble budgets of myfterious compounds, with
unintelligible jargon.

Let us therefore fearch for truth as for
hidden treafure, and endeavor with honef-
ty and candor to gain fuch a knowledge
from the experience and fate of paft ages,
and by all other poffible means, as may
enable us to form juft conceptions of our
invaluable rights and privileges, and to
hold them faft in fpite of envious and de-
figning men, and the more fubtle powers
of darkness; and as civil and religious
liberty have always been known to fland
or fall together, it behoves a people to fee
that their Rulers revere and fupport the
fupreme law of the land, as the fure pal-
ladium of all that is valuable. Far be the
intention to excite any undue jealousy of
thepowers that be," whether ordained
in mercy, or fent in wrath for the punifh-
ment of a difobedient, ungrateful nation;
yet fuch a fcrutiny into the conduct of
Rulers, as fhall determine whether they
honeftly wish to guard the Conftitution,
they are fworn to fupport, is always jufti-
fiable and defenfible. And indeed, a vir-
tuous man will always meet his conftitu-
ents on middle ground, will fubmit him-
felf to fair examination, and be ever réa-
dy to render a faithful account of his flew-
ardship; whereas the defigning demagogue
and wily hypocrite will always plot his
favorite fchemes in darknefs, cover them
with the flimfy guife of moonshine var-
nifh, and then diftribute them among the
"fovereign and beloved people," whofe
ears and hearts are often charmed and e-

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."

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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.

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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..

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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!
How blest the favorite fondling's early lot!
Joy strings her hours on pleasure's golden twine,
And fancy forms it to an endless line.
This truth, my pretty friend, an ancient wit,
Who many a jocund tale and legend writ,
Couch'd in that age's unaffected guise,
When fables were the wisdom of the wise.
To careless notes I've tuned his gothic style,
Content, if you approve, and Suffolk smile.

ONCE on a time, a Magpie led

Her little family from home,

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To teach them how to earn their bread,
When she in quest of a new mate should roam.
She pointed to each worm and fly,
That crept on earth, or wing'd the sky,
Or where the beetle buzz'd, she call'd.
But all her documents were vain ;
They would not budge-the infant train
But caw'd, and cried, and squall'd.
They wanted to be back at nest,
Close nuzzled to Mama's warm breast,
And thought that she, poor soul, must sweat,
Day after day, to find them meat.

But Madge knew better things.
My loves, said she, behold the plains,
Where store of food, and plenty reigns.
I was not half so big as you,
Then me my honored mother drew,

Forth to the groves and springs.
She flew away-God rest her sprite-
Though I could neither read, nor write,
I made a shift to live;

So must you too, come, hop away-
Get what you can, steal what you may,
Th' industrious always thrive.

Lord bless us, cried the peevish chits,
Can babes, like us, live by their wits?
With perils compass'd round, can we
Preserve our lives and liberty?

How shall we 'scape the fowler's snare!.
Or gardener's tube, erect in air?
If we but take a plum or two,
The leaden ball will pierce us through,
And then, Mama, your tender heart will bleed,
To see your little pies lie dead.

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,
And after that, take aim.

He lifts his piece, he winks his eye,
"Twill then be time enough to fly-
You, out of reach, may laugh and chatter,
To bilk a man is no great matter.

Ah-but-But what? Why, if the clown
Should reach a stone, to knock us down—
Why, if he does, ye brats,
Must he not stoop to reach the stone?
His posture warns you to be gone-

Birds are not kill'd like cats.

Still, good Mama, our case is hard,
The rogue, you know may come prepar'd,
A huge stone in his fist.

Indeed, my youngsters, Madge réplies,
If you already are so wise,

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

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HUDSON, (NEW-YORK) TUESDAY, JUNE 19, 1804.

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

FOR THE BALANCE.

THE ELECTION; OR

INFLUENCE BEHIND THE THRONE.

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nough of stubborn honefty, and virtuous.
independence, to hesitate in the choice.
As a rare inftance, however, of democratic
uprightness, we are happy to have it in our
power to ftate that there has been one man
who could reject with indignation, the o-
vertures of De Witt Clinton and Ambrofe
Spencer. The county of Ulfter has been
for feveral years without a member in the
Council of Appointment. Columbia has
twice had a member, during the time that
Ulfter has had none. This is a curious
circumftance, and has never as yet been
explained. It is in our power to give a fat-

HEN the ardor which a great
conflict produces, has, in a confiderable
degree, fubfided. When the public mind
has refumed its capacity to judge with
coolness and with wifdom, it may be ufe-isfactory account of this affair.
ful to ourselves and inftructive to pofteri-
ty to take a deliberate retrofpect of the
circumftances which have attended it, and
to enquire whether the caufe of liberty
and pure republicanifm has in truth been
fubferved-whether freedom or faction
has triumphed.

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.
He was, on a certain occafion, informed
by his Honor Judge Spencer, that it was
intended to appoint him a member of the
Council, and demanded to know whether
he would in that cafe follow the path
which De Witt Clinton and him felf had
marked out. The Colonel
gave no direct
anfwer; and not long after, was honored
with a vifi from De Witt Clinton, who
repeated, in fubflance, the enquiry which
had been made by Spencer. Col. Rruyn
had been a revolutionary officer, and be-
ing withal a man of high spirit, could not
but feel indignant that he fhould be cata-
chized in this fort, by two young men,
"who were dandling on the laps of their
nurfes, when he was fighting the battles
nurfes, when he was fighting the battles
of his country. Accordingly, he fent off
Mr. Clinton with a flea in his ear. And
Col. Bruyn was put by for that year, and
he honor of following the path which
Mr. Clinton and Mr. Spencer had mark
ed, devolved on Mr. John C. Hogeboom.
The feffion in which Abraham Adriance.
of Duchefs, was appointed, Col. Bruy

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
the Council, was obliged completely to
vield himself to "the influence behind the
Throne," no man would be fuffered to oc
cupy the executive chair, unless his con
'c'ence and his honor were found to be
.fficiently pliable. This opinion is very
much flrengthened in the minds of thofe

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
creed, and however he may, in other re-
fpects, be warped by prejudice or partiali-
ty to adopt fentiments more favorable for
one nation than another; and if this axiom
holds good amongt individuals, which not
one will controvert, how much weightier
Is the imperious duty impoïed on public
funétionaries, to fleer their courfe in fuch
a manner, that the relations between their
country and other friendly nations may be
more firmly united by their obferving a
neutral and impartial line of conduct,
inftead of being weakened or diffevered,
by their difcovering of any improper pre-
poffeffion; more especially when by fuch
prepoffeffions being avowed, the dearents
interefts of their own countrymen may
thereby be foolishly facrificed; and ftill lefs
can fuch conduct be juftified when it is to
gratify either a fycophantic difpofition, or
to difplay enmities of a long standing,
which the path of prudence would point
out had better be buried in oblivion.

The prefident of the United States has
declared it neceffary, that a fair and up-
right neutrality fhould be obferved by
America during the present momentous
contest between France and England, as
the only means whereby we could avoid
be ng involved in the collifion of European
politics or of preferving this country in
its prefent envied ftate of profperity.

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,

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