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7he National Intelligencer, WASHINGTON ADVERTISES. Vol. I. W ASHINGTON CITY, PRINTED BY SAMUEL HARRISON SMITH, NEW-JERSEY AVENUE, NEAR THE CAPITOL. No. \MV~ " Five Dolls, pan axn. FOR TUB NATIONAL No. 11. In my preceding remarks the appoint ment of Mr. Gallatin to the . office of Se cretary of the Treasury was confidered as not only juftified, hut required Wy the wiihes ot a great majority of the enlight ened citizens of the United States. His principle's anil measures are and have been the fame with tnoi'e which have been plir fued amidlt the conflicts ot party, until their recent fpleudid and unequivocal tri umph. Does any man in his lenles doubt that triumph I Does he not behold the man, in the elleem and affe&ion oi the people, at the head of the government? How came he'thfrre ? He came at the voice -of the people—-Ui.it voice which fpeaks the fame language, which wills the fame mea fures, that hive been expreflcd and purfued by Albert Gallatin, by James Maclifon, by John Nit holas, and by a number of < other men uAuated by fimilar motives. 1 Why then is the torrent of reproach di- ; rented to overwhelm one iriahy when it ought, if confidently directed, to be ap plied,to the deftruclion ot the whole re- j publican party ; of the prefident of the United States ; of the democr ttic members ofCongref* } of every diliinguithed repub lican in the Union j and of Uie American p oplc themfelves? The anlwer is obvious ard irreinlitde. Difappointed ambition Icnows an J feels its impotence. It'realife? that the pre fen t is the period of cool rea fon. Tile day of pallion is paft. The "people ha\e learnt to refpeft themfelves, a id have made their enemies reipeCl and fear them. To t'ucceed, therefore, in its unvarying object, which is to degrade re rpublicanifm and lehafe the peoplei it is po litic to be circumfpeft, guarded and re fer ved. It is nccenary to withhold an avowal of.its ultimate purpofe. Itisne (teflary to accompli I! i its objedl by piecc meals. Hence it employs its wiles in rela tion to fome particular man or mcafure. •It lea tiers the poifnn of infinuation, it de fames fimplicity of manners by calling it -hypocrily, it depreciates talent by calling it cunning, and in the name of a foreigner concenters every vice that the moft degra ded date of human nature gives birth to. But fortunately it is the nature of error forever to be iiKorliftent. The lame fpi rit of calumny that now hold? up to indig nation the appointment of a foreigner, iuftified and panegyrifed the appointment of Alexander Hamilton, hirnfelf a foreigner, to the very office in which Mr. Gallatin is to be placed. Who appointed Mr. Hamilton ? Wasi" liot Wafhington, that man wfcom fede rdifm extolled to the fkics as upright, en lightened, and unerring? The period oi the appointment was 12 years ago, when Mr. Hamilton had not be>m longer in America, than Mr. G;\llatin has been at this day. If then Wafhington in 178°, did right in appointing Alexander Hamil ton, will Mr. Jeff'Hon do wrong in ap pointing Albert Gallatin in 1301 ? 1 fpeak in relation to the charge of Mr. Gallatin's being a foreigner : and in this view I con tend that federalifts fhould either approve the nomination, or be filent. As to inte grity aud talent it is fuperfluous in this view of the lhbjeCl to dwell upon them. Whatever may be faid of Mr. Hamilton, no one has dared to fay that Mr. Gallatin wanted the honor of a gentleman or the tnfegri,ty of an honed man ; and his talents need no other illtvftration than the univerfa! admiration oi the republicans, and the per petual inVe£\ives of the federalifts. Let then the truth, the whole truth, be fpoken, Let thofe, who denounce the nomination of Mr. Gallatin, condemn alfo he appointment of Mr. Hamilton. Let them fay, we clamoroufly approved the anions of Wafhington, while we had certain perfonal views to anfwer by fwel- Jing his fame. Then we anathematifed every man who dared to doubt his infalli bility; we called him a fool or a madman, an incendiary or a traitor. We have an swered our views. And now, as the ex ample of Wafhington can no longer pro mot'* our purpofes, we will treat it with *jtpgleCt, ws vrifl virtually condemn, it, Wt . WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22d, 1«01. will laugh at thofe who appeal to it as fa cred. No—Fellow citizens, the departed Wafhington, no lels than the enlightened Jefferfon, have manifefled an adherence to tne found, liberal, and enlarged policy oi national intereft, in feleCting men of the bell talents and pureft virtues for places of the higheft trull and refpohfibility. The mind of neither wa3 fo narrow as to limit by local boundaries the exiflence of talent and virtue. They both of them loved their country too well to deny it the aid of Icience, induitry, and tidelity, in wiiater r country they may have been cultivated. I'hey felt none oi thofe ignoble jealouties, thofe uncharitable antipathies, and thole exclufive regards, which prejudice in a thoufand fha pes fuggefts to the darkened mind. Under the influence of theft principles, which no great man wiil dif< latm, how ever little minds may rail, Wafhington chofe a H >.'.nil ton ; and Jefferfon, it is ex- P'dled, will chufc a Gallatin to pr.'fule over the finances of the country., The former, Wafhington confide red as en lightened and virtuous ; (f >r at that period the private immoralities of his life had not befcn developed) the latter, J fFeifon kfifew from perfonal know ledge flrengihenad by the unanimous fVdFra:>;e of republican citi zens, to be weil informed, faithful, and up; ight. l'hat, in truth, Mr. Gallatin is well informed, that he is faithful and upright; that he is in principle (however he n ay be in birth) an American, is fo well known to x great portion of the people, that they need no further information. But, to re prefs, as- far as truth can reprefs, that mat's of vague v-proach and unfounded charges that are Urged again If bun, it will be fhown in fnbfequent remarks that the political de portment ot r. Gallatin has been invaria bly diilinguUhed by the talents of a flatef man and the virtues of a patriot. DR. BLAIR. The Rev. Dr. Biai'-, whofe death w formerly mentioned, was the fon of a re iuedlable Merchant in Edinburgh, who having fufEered confide rabiy in circuin itances by the South Sea fcheme, was af terwards an Accountant of Excife. Dr. Biair was ordained to the pariih of Golle lie, in Eifcfhire, in 1 743. The fam of his : >reachi:ig, even at this early period, procu.* d him in a few months, a trantlation to ' -'he Camngate Church at Edinburgh, in which he remained til! 1752, when lit was cbolen one of :he minifters of the ci ty, and in 175 8 was preferred to the high ' church. About this time he opened aCl.ifsj tor Rhetoric and Belles letters, to iv hic.ii lie reao the firft fketch ofnis Lectures, and thefe were fo highly approved, that in 17 59 he was created the find Regius Pro f. lTbrof Rhetoric and Belles lettersin the > Univerfity of Edinburgh. In 1762, he ! )U blifhed a Critical DilTc rtation on tlw i' >em of Oflian, in which, from internal evidence, he fupnorted the antiquity of ' that Poem. In 1777 the firft volume of his •Sermons appeared, and fince that period three more volumes have been publifh ed. Thefe, Sermons have experienced a fuccefs unparalleled in the annals of pulpit eloquence, which they have jufljy merited 1 by their purity of fentitr.ent, jwflnels of reafoning, «md grace of competition; It addition to thefe volumes, we are happ\ to hear that the Do&or, previous to his death, delivered th/ MS of n fifth volume into the hands of his publifhera, which is far advanced in the prefs. In 1780 hh Lettures on Rhetoric and the Belles Let ters were publiflied. Thefe Le&urss are 1 eminently diftinguifhed by laborious in veftigation, found fenfe, refintd tafle ; aiui above all, by that htcJdtts ordo which al ways proves a writer to be matter of Im fubjeift. In fliort, this work may truly be confidered as an unequivocal and fure ilandard of tafte. Dr. Blair lived in conflnnt habits of friendly intimacy with the firft literan charadlers of the age, who could not fail Weing warmly attached to a man who had employed his life in difFufing through ■iii cojuitrjr a genuine taile for pohte li terature, maintaining the peace and juftice ut us ecclefialtical cftablifhments, and en forcing the precepts of Christianity not more by the power of his eloquence than by the purity of his manners. We Hull conclude with obferving that every line, every fentiment that has iffued from the pen of this eminent Divine, tends to the great centre of all his views,'the promotion of virtue, religion, andhuinani ty ; and that all ids actions were no lei's pointed towards the fame great end. From the P.a'.titn-jrc American. Liverpool) March 3, 1801. Dear fir, The expedled increafe of the bounties on American fl"ur is at length rendered probable by the introduction of a bll into Commons under the klifpices ot adininiflration, by which the protecting prices are propofed to be, viz. On all ft our imported into Great Britain, which lhall have been cleared out in Ameri- , ca, between the 12th of November, and 10th of January laft—fine flour, 78s—f'u- ( perfine, aitto, bOii—per barrel ot ' neat. On all flour cleared out in America, be tween the 10th of January and the 25th jinflant—fine flour, 86s»——fupernne da. t>os. —p( r barrel of 1961b£. neat. 1 hefe bounties are exaclly the fame as thofe quoted in our letter of the 3111 of December, with the exception of 86s. in- Itead of 88s. on fine flour, ,which wc fuf p:c. to be not correctly flated to us. On flour cleared out in America, aft' i the 25th i nil ant, the protecting prices re vert to—fine flour, 68s—f'u perfine do. 70s —per barrel of lOtflbs. neat—and are to continue 10, on flour that may arrive before the Ift of October ne'xt, as llatt. in cur letter of the 26th of Decembei laft. i"ne Brown Bread A<sl, and the claufe for preventing the making of fine flour, are repealed, as they were found not to produce the effects hoped for, and to occaiion con lidei able difcontent. in confequenoe of hav ing f'urnilhed g-ound for abuie. Although the late and expefled large fup plies of flour, Src. have produced a tempo rary flaghation in the fale, anu fome de preflion m the price, yet we do not expetfi either wil! be of long continuance. Almofl every other article of native provifions i? on the advance, and little doubt is now eit tert;.'ned that the apprchenfions of general frarcity ha\e been neither unfounded nor ex iggerated. The months of May audi June, will probably prove the time of great eit trial. N twithflanding however, we tl ink th, continuance ot the demand for all kinds of grain and flour, may be computed on, yet we are not quite fo confident, with refpedt to rice, more efpecially, if towards the 'Yutumn and Winter, the i'upplies from the Eafl'lndies, fhould prove as large as now appears to be expeCted. It is with much concern we add, that it is underltood the King is again aiflictei! with a return of his former .valady, and unlefs fome favorable fhould very loon take place, it is cxp the ( xecutiv.. government will be commit' d to a legen cy, as the prefent uncommonly critical llate of the nation and of pubiic affairs throughout Europe, wil! not admit of much fufpeniion in the affairs of government. It was deemed neceifary that W. Pitt Omuld continue in office, till the terms of Loan were fettled, and the I'upplies for the year propnfed, but the coming pf the King's dlnels, before thefe were finally compleated, atn prelenteda bar to the formal accept ance of his refignation, and he is therefore (till the minifter. A definitive Peace is formally concluded upon between France, and the Emperor of Germany, and moft cordially fhould we re joice to give you fimilar information refpeCit ing this country, but on this fubje£l, as i. refpeCls b<jth France and the northern pow« rs, no further information has yet tranfpir ai - r ! We are refpeCifully, Your afuired friends, JRatubonf., Llu®ur;s 8c Duncan. ■ NORTHERN CONFEDERACY. The following is the anfwdr of baron. Ehrenfward to the notification of lord Gre 114 ville, of the 15th of January, ftating that an embargo had been laid on the DaniiU and Swedifh fhips in England. vk Ihe underiigned minifter plc'nipQteiv tiary of his in perial Swedifh majelty, re ceived the official notification) by which, his. excellency lord Grenville, firft miniftet of flate, fignified to the underligntd that his Britannic majefty had ordered an em bargo to be laid on all Swedifh fhips that fhisuld be found in the harbors within his dominions. So unexpected an event be tween powers who were on relations of triendfhip toward each other, was received with allonifhment by his imperial majefty, who was not only unconfcious of having given his Britannic majefty the lealt caufe of complaint, but, on the contrary, was en titled to have demanded indemnification for repeated aggreffioiitu A&uated by this n-lie&icn he rather expe&ed that the noti fication was tranfmitted with the view to bury his grievances in oblivion than to give occalion for frefli ones, which fliould renew the remembrance of the puft. u As the Englilh court has ftated, as [the ground of this notification, that a mari time convention was in contemplation it would doubtlefs haye adled with more juf ti<e had it waited for an official tomn'unU cation from the SwecWih court,, which it moft afluredly would, in proper time, have received, of a conv ntion, which is confix dered in io odious a point of view, as to. urge it to an aft of v olence againft a court, whole connexion with England no hingelfe could have difturbed. As, the difpute be-, tween the Ruffian and Englilh counts re* lated to the iiland of Malta, and the de claration of the Danjfh court refenrd to the convention of 1730, the underfigr.ed can ice 110 jlift reafon why the SwediO} court, which had given no other deilara? tion than what related to the not©, ot the Slit of December, which has. but jnft been received, (heuld be attacked in lo hoftile a manner, before any anlwtr li.id been given to the inlinuations contain; cd hi that note. v ' The under ftgned, who imparted the contents of the note of his excellency'lord Grenville co his court, is obliged, in con formity to the orders of his mafter, to pro tell, as far as by the prefent art he cai.» formally proteft, againft the embargo laid on the Swedifh Ihips, and lofs or damage that may be therein occafioned. He de jmands, in the moil for ible and exprelftva terms, that, in purfuance of the ftipylation ot the treaty ot 1661, the embargo may bo taken oil, the continuance of which can nq otherwife be con tide red thali as a defigncd and premeditated declaration or' war 011 the part of England. " The unucrfigned, whom the exprefiion of the defirc of the Lritifti court could not efcape, obt'erves; in the hoftile determina tions by which it is accompanied, only a defire to give his imperial Swedifh majefty caufe of complaint, as well by the deten tion of the convoy, as in refpeft to the af fair at Barcelona. He wifhed the Britill} x court had confirmed the truth of its aflurau ees by its actions, in which cafe this ccu.rt would have been adluated by ing fentiments. The underlined lias thp honor, &c. (Signed) " BARON Von EHR£!S3WAI:D,'> London, Jan. 17 1801. A BULL. The new Pope has clire&ed his atten^. tion to the loofenefs of the female ilrtft, and has actually ifTued a bull againft it. To this disorder he afcribes all the evils which have afHidted Europe and depreffed the. Church. He lay!-'——" The eveof a clini cian can no where turn itlelf without enc countering abaihed the difplay of feduc tive charms, in public and private ; hay the v> ry temples are profaned by thefe i;~ decencii's. The importance of this objeft was deep ly felt by Clement of Alexandria, who de lares, "that women fliould on no account ! be permitted to appear before men .1, inde cent anparcl, left the latter be led en tr PAID IN Advance.