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VK h is rln man, whofe 1 te conduct in feu i tig
ii'C hank (lock, is not only jullifietl, hut is ap
Jed by the prevailing pa, tv. His yartizans
pr tirud to believe that •> blic crcd.t lh>od in
jeopardy ; that there remained n ? dt•.•rnativc ; !
:h •: .1 r. baring was the only nv.t:in th's ex
’■ i ■ -V; i ich, and flourilVii tg countn ,who had
tile m. ms ro fave it: that h * knew how to
- l'Te advantage of bis good fortune; he
dn ut! 'he terms upon w uch he would act;
:nd that Mr. Gallatin, dri 'en to :hc lath ne
ce: .• ., ij the lak thift, nay tot''chill inomei.t,
V.MS obliged to yield; was obliged to humble !
the c haracter, the refources, the credit of the
treafury,nay everything t » the nod find dwta
torial caprice and pri'crip ions of a ifranger.
Before 1 proceed to the lal\ feeue n This
deteftable drama, let me a k the reader to sc
coniider the elevated po fit ion in which the
fecrctary might have from which he
might have dictated bis own terms. li Air.
Ba; ing had .n agency in the collection of the
Dutch debt, it Mr Oaringd *manded payment
ho w cafilv and how properly could an anfwei
have been given in this way ? 1‘ l know that
the United States owe a million of dol
lars which arc payable in Am Her dam ; our
“ ^1°ne>’ >s now ready in the trealury ; a u »
“Cient fum is appropriated for the putp 'fc; •
| wsove {.tuition; wc mean to o.Tvr our money
v. here it .5, upon terms, tor the payment oi
( ^Uiiiori at Am'lerdam, I expect to have
^ 5 or b per cent in the negotiation; if
4 V*u think proper tordlow this, the moriey
ift.m be paid at once ; if not, immediate or
ders (hall be given to our agei.t in London,
to obtain bullion, and if the nrgociaeiou
c *n!,ot he made upon better terms, we will
*end the money in one of or. trigates.’*
j->) tuch means, the credit of the Uni ted States
would nave .food high, and no • •evaiton wc# Id
oai e been afforded hi’ the imbccdlity and fjb
niffien of Mr. Gaiiatin u> complain of a tiajif
aetton, which no argument can extenuate, no
facts can juflity.
it not be undcrftood that any ir.finua
tion is intended againft Mr. Baring. Far
irom it. ^ fercat credit is due to him a- a ne
goctatorln making fuch an advantageous b::r
g.t.n, when fo many ftrong cbvumftanecs j
” , ‘n. bis fare. His dutv was to render j
<- i the .er.'tcc which he could to his employ- j
ers, and that duty led him to obtain from the i
mf^d States many advantages as their
pu yic functionaries would permit or aftW.I.
, !e idolaters of the fecretary will perhaps
T • 'p°l(d to tolerate ar.d bear with hitn,
tucy nave done for his former political tru.d
giwinons. If fo, I will anfwcr m ut .or
^ • _d language. w It would be jujuft to re
% proach a man with the na»-rowneis of his
capacity. Nature differ,butes her gifts as
,, *i*c 2nd what is ltil! mote, men are
<{ rot mafters of their own education. But the (
t ),K ^ tu erro. is, to take upon o;j .elves |
u Dur<ieii? to which our ftrength is unequal, j
co facrificc theftateat the ftrri.se of our !
p- rional vanity. When an • .mployn.en: I
u ' V !*-ently demands a mats of inf .rn.ntion j
w '):ch wo have not beet: foie to p:oc ire, j
what demon urges us to accept of it r” My I
o; : uon is, that r.o man in fuch a cafe ought to (
f*/c Went or inactive, whHc the honor, crcdir, {
- uaractcr, or happinefs of his country is lacri- {
c' be altar c-f folly, or is about to be over- i
wne.med in the ftorms or ambition. To the j
people the miichief will be the fame, wht-rher |
U h i;l proceed iiom weaknefs, or from crime, I
v Uether rhe author may be a vifionary thco- :
ntr, or an unprincipled demagogue.
' o forced as a partisan, it is neceflarv to
nave invention, cunning, watchfuluefsto
poiiefs feme promptnefs, and to In convci hint
"n pie »°utine°i affairs, with prefence of mind
anu of patience; fuch l think Gallatin,
who never feriouflvexertcl himfeif for th.
benefit of the public, but has always endea
voured to make the public ufefui to himfeif.
While fuch fa dts and Much unanfvverable
arguments exift ; while there is nothing iTt
« vcr. for fear, hope, or doubt, how it that
there can be found a folitar . individual who
w-:>. not give !i,s voice for condemnation and
cxpulfion ?
FEDERALIST.
/o be continue !.
>■•iCHMOND.
Ma&CiI l')/ i8'.\3.
SOMFTI1ING about Geo; ytt»lay_i
An Twer to a piece in the Virginia. Ga- |
zette-Aafwer to an attack upon the !
Recorder, in Jaft Saturday’s k.xaminer ’’
•— Ralph Wormley upon Junius— 1
f\ S on the wefiern waters— De- i
fence of Mr. Coleman of New- V> k—
and Irveral fmall pieces, deferred till I
Saturday.
— —
SlVlrRAL applications have been
nrade at this ofkcc for fetts or the papers
cne ] recorder from tnc c on me nee - j
rerxt. We Cainor g ratify the lb v/nhe ;; '
bui;f ;. iy perioii wi,« b' . gmd numNua
this o#iec, he ihaJl receive an npial
number of newspapers for tWn. By
this means, we iludl perhaps be able to I
make up a few partial ftleftions of the !
paper. Better Jmallfifb than ncnet fays the
proverb.
1 here is a vellel, now ar Rocketts,
the Rebecca oi Providence, which has
taken in a parcel of flour. The crew
have opened each barrel, out of which
lome flour has been taken. When the
rvebecca goes to market, the barrels
j will be fold, as containing the full weight.
| 1 nis ao drafted flour hes been brought a
ihorc and fold, i he lloryisno ice ret at
Rocketts. We are authorised to fay lb by
one or the Hour infpeftors at that place.
1 here is no law ot the itata to prevent
iuch baud. Will it not be n~cessary
for the next legiflacur? to impofc a hea
vy penalty, upon olfenccc of fo grofs
and fcaudalous a nature ?
-- ■■winffwr rf,n
JAMES OGiLVIE.
, the Virginia Gazette uf bit Saturday,
tiie;e appears a kngadvertifunent from a per
lon o? tins name. 11 is addreifed to the friends
ot : henry and m«r d improvement The ad
' eit.ler u.vcs notice, that he is ready to de
in ei a ftries of tiiiccurfcs on imertdti; g luh
iyc+s as foon a- thirty perfons ‘ha!- have >ub
lCrioed a guinea a piece, occ. &c.
. * ‘.c -'Ccoruer takes leave to a-'E this tr.o-<U
Ihthjafnr, \Viicthv t he is acquainted with
°‘ c / ■’ who publiflietl, a .ouf five
) Us go, pr pp als for pliming i 7r-:t:lfe on
_iUi:who, upon this pretence, col
kCU' a '■ oc ui money from the libera!
a td iiitunry. V. eufle him to inform u-. when
tn.it J.-ek is to he pubiiilicd ; and, j it is never
'*?? P .vc a fit, at whnt tune he in
t,.i ci tv.turn the lublertptiGn money to hiv
pairmys, or whether he thinks i; branch of
,M9rai ih io retain roonc y, for whit h ho
t;OVLi 0r'".;•••'» 10 return the promoed value?
i pHtUtualj ay mi't -f debts, where praefi
co.e,*s av.-ry interefll'? J p rimer, t ol moral
phi; ».ojny. PVheKyr.tr In ubes ut * ///
J-1’-' :-vs .!m proveib.
ri ^ here ha e been numerous an.! *• - y defen- i
nb!y u. functs, wherein authors have been
O,,"oeu lu*p,- |d, and even to l*.rrax their 1
c .. foments u* .be public, after the receipt
* ;UuL .qition m kiey. But, from a correct j
enquiry, we have not been able ro uiceitai '
tikit tills' • .1 fie is one of them.
CORRESPON DLN CE.
Tlr;. pi C<< were -,'ccei o. :, ctnd
J-oula ::avc been injerted.,yW
LETTER No. L
SIR.
, . . , LHJNG of lute has happened,
wmen has given me, and th-.ft around me.
more concern than the information we have
received rejecting the very cruel treatment
you have received, from the hands of a Mr.
George Hay. I ha, gentleman, we are toid
is a member of the executive council; it’was
therefore to be expected, if in any of your
puo. cuttcr.s rcfpcrttng him, you had violated
cm law; or your country, to thole laws alone
he Inou.d have appealed for red refs ; which
P1 * • wouM haveg^it. ,i Mr. Hay n
c.j'even among't iurh ruff.ms as we are,
oil tms Jide or the Ridge,) than that of an no
pea! to It cites, Oaves, Sic. But, Si , it is hoped
ihat you will foon recover from the Richmond
• epindican 1 ruifesjand that you w h continue,
as ufuai, to give us fuch information refpec
ting the conduct of thofc gent! -men, who arc
i .-’.c.d at t.iC read or «>ur affairs, as may cna
R us to judge whether it will to moft pro
per to continue them in, or difmifs them from
cMice. In doing which, you will meet with
iupport from thofe who wim to lave the public
money. r
VT .. A MOUNTAINEER.
Mr. J. I . Callender.
LETTFR No. II.
FOR THE RECORDER,
If eft of the Blue Ridgr.
A" 1'^'/}’ ^aJ,cn ' 1 have juft bc.n inform
ed by ‘he Uecorder, that fome day laft month,
;/;>u br>.ighr forward m theaflWbly a refoiu
t:°n ;<;r approving, by a vote of the whole
ji.j-iture, or • he character and conduct of
i hmm Jciierh n ; and that the original
:ir V ' coot,!.ned a claufe for the punching
f eoiUo'j of newspapers, who might pre
• irnr: to cenfure the prefrdent. What the
■ le/ii, Earlrin, have you, or the Icn Haturc, to
v/irh wfwtc.cr the r- .pie (hail pk-.,(c u>
(a; urtli DK o( Mr. J.ffc/lonf Do k. the
people of Virginia, lend delegates to the af
femliiy, and give them three dollars a day, for
the purpole of telling us that ou-- prefident is
• pntlofopher, and a benevolent, patriotic re
p i di'.an ; vV are they lent to pinilh *hofc
who Jhnll prcjumc to fay that ha docs not
poflfcfs ali thciegood qualities f
No, T. irk in, they are not. Nor do I think
were fent to flscvv their generality !o
much at the expence of their cqnftituents, as j
to be giving v.j hundred dollars for doing 2
| piece of buftnc V, whic h they night hare had
doice for 12 hundred. Oh, Larkin' I mull
* y no more! 1 have tins moment leairtt that
Callender is in jail. If l was certrui that
yoorrcfoiuciou, which was fill! offered to the
houfe, had not been again offered and pafitd,*
1 would fay ne was put in confinement with a
I view of preventing him from becoming ac
quiinted with our executive and legniacive
affairs; and to force him to quit Richmond,
Vvhen it w ould be fnid by fomc, hufc/.a. bo /s1
we’eando wh it weplcale; Callender is gone;
our actions will be unobfei veil.—I fhall con
cludc, Larkin, by faying, that through you I
b--g leave to profent my compliments to Mr.
I George May, and inform him th3t lie has
! gained ’nut little credit on this fide the moun
tain, on accountot his ungentlemanly conduct
towards Callender; and that it is probable,
Ihotild he ever pafs this way, he will be as
rw ighly handled as poop Callender was. You
wd! think from what I dave find, (and you
wii. not think wrong/ that 1 am living in a
part of the country where I am at liberty to
(peak /r«.cly, without the dread of George
Hay’s law, vi/. club law, and that f am
A MOUNTAINLER.
NOTE.
* I have been taught to believe it was not
a general rule to bring any thing before the
houfe a fiecond time,after being rejected; but
as they' moke this rule when they laifed their
wages, ir may be done again.
A NO 17 iLR HOIS TING
OF [HE
BLACK FLAG;
. OR, THE PRKSIDEN V AGAIN.
AFTER the eie&ion of Mr. JefFerfon
?u the prelidency, the country was l'coured
by pc i tons \r ho had his - pidhirc to fell, or
j who took m fubferiptions forfucha publica
| t'on. S.-vcr.il democrats, who had lubferibed
i to the Examiner for this picture, remember
| ed to forget: to call and take it away. If tj,L „•
! 0:1 ;.v for ‘‘he delay might have
| (upportai- L. But this they did~not do.
i ne illlic was that, about fix or eight months
-go, Mr. Jones adverdied that he would
r-ue actions againfr all luch delinquents.
Perhaps the futilcrihers began to repent of
“7, LL11'. rerlwpvthuy began to think
. U -v li*sJeen e**“go or the prefident in
tr‘~ Kecord.rr,;md ellevvhere,to latisfy curioli
typvith ut paying twelve additional dollars for
‘,iS l‘rturc« Be ti>«s as it may, we ate at
prefect going to give a few more etching
or the moral portrait of tins inetlimablc and
sniiniublc man. 1 he particulais have been
; urn ihed by a gentleman who reticles in Al
c<*‘ aad who, from his childhood
has known the Monticello family, v/irh ail
its appurtenances. Our correlpondwn has
been long and well known iu the newspaper
wond. Fie is d man ot property and or ta
ients. We had hinted, a long time fince,
that lornething particular was to he faid con
cernmg a letter from a great pcifonage to
hls nephew, Peter Carr, iiere it comes?
Carr was a member of the late general af
temblyj and the fon of Mr. JcfLiPuTs favo
rite filter. He was adopted by h.s uncle, in
ms infancy; and received from him perlwul
ly a part ol his education. When Me. yM
rerfon w.nt to France, he Jiredted by ieuers
;‘!e c?ude of Petr’s tiudies. The letter ’ I
wv- e Jong and numerous. They were hand- j
eo aoout as mafter pieces of competition, in j
one ot ihem, there ,;e exp:t lions to the fol- I
iowmg amount. Peter is admonished that, 1
if nis own reafon does not convince him of
?! »/« beivg, h< ou,ht «
‘ oubt oj thefaa. Our correfjiondcnt’s words
aiw broader; but v/c wilh to convev an in
befo“ £" in the hhM ‘“S^ge c:.n
It is difficult to conceive what good Pur
polc was to be anfwercd by inftillim* f!uo
tne nead of a young man, fucii as Carr, Ti doc
trine lo difrcputabie, and fo dangerous} for
t c admonition «n the letter can be emtidered
as nothing more or lefs tain a recommenda
tion to impiety * This was to let Carr at an
no'i a.
Anatheif! is^.ke rhe deift,an individual
whofe opinions are involuntary. They are
under the guidance of his judgement, or ra
ti.er oj his folly. Fvery thing around us an
nounces the prefence and agency of a fuperior
ipeei 3 of being. 7 he infimre divitibility of
n grun offand, the incomprehcnfible coluiion
of its atoms, “forever diffant, vet forever
“ near, ’ at once reduce a Newton and his
invcltRations to the level of infancy. The
mnnite retrtrfpedti ve ft lies of eternity, the
conception of fomtthlng which never had a
cginmng, at once burltfques the aoproachea
°* mortal comprehenfion, Under fuch cir
cumitantes, to deny the being of fbirething
fuperior in its intcJicauai endowment, to man,
is an ahfurditv. Of prrfons enjoyin'* the ca
pacity and habit of refleaicn, it is'diflicCt
o think that any one in his own mind, ever
<ji tiicved toe exiftcnce of fome power to
tally fuperior to himfelf. An affe ctation of
this mrt prevailed in France} but it has been i
lemarkcu by dr, Moore that, though thefe 1
people talked more ofinfidelfty than moft of
heir neighbours, they at fhr* fair* time be
immortal variance with a very numerous
proportion of mankind. The cor.rfutf of*
tbc young man bimfclf, a few Vcars after,
! 0^n'stt> ^1CW that he was, in fomc refpedts,
a forward pupil.
! In Summer, irae, Carr wrote* very in
fid.ous hut flattering iettr r to the late gene
| '.a: The obvious defy;:: of
i lh!S ",,u,uffad? W:1 -to obtain an anfwer,
winch n.:ght injure the go irral’s character.
| i he letter ieew to lt^natize ns kuav. s,
, >r 'Oils, «»l) a is enemies. Amop thul,
, ' s, c ,e and preceptor mml of couric
.'.uve ,Kcn included. Carr fubferibed the
p-. neot l-'HN LangiIOKNE to this pretry
* t,Ct f A* Is, 's ,lame a numerous
andj-cfpcaabarla,Mi|y i„ a county a iioiuin-.
xo?i*rr,n i» Remark, front wht ,hv, his
, r was dated. | he name of Peter 0 irr
he knew would not Jo; as he had, not W
, f°‘e been emphatically intro
dneed to general Wifljiiigton, by Mr. M -.
dlU>n’ ai. jlJr' 7*ff* •fin's n/pbezv. The
correfpondence Was dereAed and bro-i-hc • ,
‘ight by , colonel Jctm Nicholas, of
f LCtARLK• -fie bus now hi bfs /.*finfr
i he whole correspondence; r.i,d^
'f deuciun. lie has fait! that, whan ail
t'»wn an J tak . it to
gc thk r, no doubt will or can remain, that a
£PfaL pc;fonaSe was privy to the fcheme,
! V " ‘s ”ct tne pnme mover of it. Iff,
did ;U,t b ing the child into the world, he „
c«iit ii in the cradle.
thiYiVI T .vvT,nSton an anfwer to
this ivi;. John Laiighorae, to this virtuous
uno republican letter writer, to this promo
^[fiS lobtary companion of our Rich
mona of dubs. This difdofurc ,-a
v- a !r ‘U. . J}' C°1loilcl N:^o’-s for fu many
•’ 1 °in a lClU 'dunce to en, .<Te in fUci
pvrfoma char-os. political cncmu , ia
A.bcmarkand .he m-ighixmrW, I,u, »:.i
| J '-d no luJi delicacy toward- hi.n. H.
I will not now, however, flinch from a judici 1
extminanon or all the foregoing facts s
wnidinadyuponhisamhoiity, been made in be
| t He is ready, when called upon,
I V?'ne forward with his proofs.
| i Ins notable trauflidion has fin- e beerx
-i ought into public obfervetion, by this
l.une John Langhorne hhr.f.A 'How
eeer rid,culous, incredible, cr mad, inch a :,-.
d':' alT«r, the matter is inconteitibJc.
1 no tulclolure took place at Charlottesville
on the 15th. of April, jSoi. At the con -
imeiceaKiit of the diftrict court, foi thn
place, ;\{ :r. LANGUOR NK, alias Peter Carr,
V- .S maiung ekttionccring fpeech. in
t-us luranguc, he openly confeiled the v/ri
f 0t l-h,C. !.etter to g^ral Walhingn •
un t; a fictitious name. 1 ,c Ipe-.-ch was
aniweved, ami the whole rr.tnfaclion was fui
ly explained, by the gentle nan who had vie
w- -, 'c. ne wh >:e Jcfte fo.i party, that
"■ !L l\Ulc,'-> "»«d within car nonadiim diibtnce
0 head q^rtes itfelf, flirunk f.om this
planation Several or them had come ore.
Carr W • 4l,d ^ J{cild
C ,r, nut they found that ,t would no. do.
, r‘a%h'»*‘ hvnfdf at the dole..!
explanation^ hung down his hca -f/c
Jnea*ced off,” lays our co.-refpondc . - ;;c*
u.wUrr that, h"d heeu «ktev‘ied m fhecnl
i.e..,.ngi - 1 a a profound liiencc clv.fed .Y
,c "e'‘e'. . * 0 rddc fadfs, three or four inn.
urea ciUx.e;:s can bear UjUmonyd if
car. be a pidner, a better attejLd, or a In v
/ ‘tUiKOus jiory than this, we ihall be Ta io
r.uow wiierc that ftory can be found. ~
S'UI ^frcfpi'udent has not Jpecided the
manner in which colonel licholas delected
* C.er Carr. A 0 have heard that it was lbine
thi.,5 m tins way. Carr went ,o iumc poft.
oiiit c, perhaps a pofl :>;Tice at Warren. Up
there enquired for 3 letter acljrefied to Mr
John. Lfi'i&oorne. The Angularity of his
enquiring for letters addreffed to'another
pt: on excited lufpicion, which led to a difeo
veryvA the whole plot. All th.s is given as
a icport, v/huo v. ; have indifrincliy hoard
but 01 which the fubftancc, 01 fomething like
t, is inconteltibly true.
a “ U‘J*'V.;. '°U that Colopd Nicholas de
^^ to pubhlngenetal Waftington’s anfwev
i ,"elv 1^'°“ 9 •aVovitc nephew. Ic is moft
Crly*l u TH ^rr8fPo»^nt would have
^ n abk-, before thjs time, to procure u> a
'/.' or it. But this manufeript h„s Jain
fvcrn! oui hands for about five months. Wc
hope, however, that it willfoon make its nP
t:eVfd. ^'hcn French atheifts "w^e
examined on their grounds of b lief, thev ^ot
into a wiWernefs of wo.us about the eternity
o. the wond, the piatick powers of nature,
vv:th other phrs/es which when explained,
| refol ve them f el yes into an acir.oAvledgement
ofa iuprenrie being. fhe co? rdpondeiicc
, <-• ween I' rederioc and the furious f>AJcrr
: affords a ctmplete infhmcc of this kind
both l,r<dd.cd an equal contempt for all reii
! P°ns; . ( hey Relieved as little as poifible.
. In a .erics ofJctter* they mutually attempt.
; cxPij,.,n ;heir ‘^as, and theabove is the rr
. -1, . lbu?a ^>uht remains, whether there
uch a charter as an at) .it.” Jmrim
can Jnnwil ktgifler, for ,796 p. 22#
t 1 hv. author held Giles in to> much ab
norrrnce to have entertained any pcrfonal
cor ref w„ider.ce with him. 'f he matter
cartie atjccini kand.