VOLUNTEERS.

One of the committee being called on for a toast, rose. 'Mr. President,' said he, people in general may suppose I am not firm in my adherance to the cause, on account of my having once supported opposite principles. But, sir, I wish to have it understood, in order to show the stability of my opinions, and the disinterestedness of my republican attachment, I rise to give the health of that undeviating patriot, the Hon. Wm. K -g. 13 cheers-Vicar of Bray.

By the God of War.-A Military Academy.
Delightful task, to fetch the soldier up,
And teach the young republicans to shoot.

By Mr. K

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cheers; shoot the Feds,' from all quarters.

n.-May the Spanish Patriots soon be cut out by Boney, and all the Tories in this country receive a complete suit of tar and feathers. The Done-over Tailor. •

After several of the leaders had retired, a gentleman from the North End addressed the company. 'As the Doctor and the General and the Marshal are gone,' said he,' I s'pose I'm a right to speak. I own I don't feel what is called comfortable. To be sure I can't complain of the goodness of the dinner, or its cost, because the extra is made up by our leaders, but confess I had rather a dined somewhere else.Your damask curtains, and sillabubs, and flummery, may suit the Essex Junto and the Spanish Junto, and them folks, but it don't suit me. Its what none of us hav'nt been used to. I therefore move that the wine on the table be cork'd up and sent back to the landlord, and that we adjourn to the Green Dragon, to spend the rest of the evening in a truly republican fashion.' (Carried by acclamations.) What took place at the adjournment, we have not yet learned.

WE have always believed that whatever is exhibited for publick encouragement, is a subject of publick investigation; and that the performers of the Stage, in a particular manner, are open to general criticism, not only from a right of prescription, but from the sound reason on which the practice is founded. Whoever pays the price of his ticket is immediately invested with the authority of a judge; and of course has an unquestionable right to hiss, or otherwise condemn those performers who are imperfect in what they undertake to play; whether

from natural ignorance, perverse inattention, or offensive intoxication. The performers of the Boston Theatre, we presume, have formed a resolution not to suffer any animadversions to be made upon their conduct before the publick (and with no other have we any concern); since we were yesterday most violently assailed by one of them, who declared he had neither insulted nor offended the audience, on Mr. Bernard's benefit night, and of course that the insinuation contained in the last Ordeal, was FALSE. We take it for granted the audience are the true judges, whether they have been offended or insulted or not, and the best expression of the sense of such offence or insult is a general hiss! But Mr. Caulfield says he did not offend or insult them, and we have declared the contrary. Now, we are not so foolish as to imagine that if we prove this performer to have been intoxicated, on Mr. Bernard's benefit night, that the circumstance will be sufficient to convince him of the offence or insult. We presume he will hereafter be as ready as he has been before, to come forward to the audience, both deficient in his part and reeling in his liquor; and bustle through the performance without either correctness or sobriety.

This kind of conduct in him, and this alone, restrained us from inAlicting as far as lay in our power, such personal chastisment as his unparalleled insolence of deportment most uuquestionably deserved. But if we are ever obliged to descend to act the part of a gladiator, we hope we shall perform it with propriety, and not reduce ourselves to the level of every bachanal who may happen to offend or insult us.

Mr. Caulfield was announced to sing the song of Hail Columbia, for the benefit of Mr. Bernard. He appeared before the audience, and made some fruitless efforts to effect the object in contemplation; but in vain,

'Twice he essay'd to speak, and twice his tongue,

In his half open'd mouth, suspended, hung.'

He first attempted an apology, then tried a second time to sing; failed again, and then sat down. It might have been supposed that his words were frozen in Nova Zembla, had it not been evident that they were floating at random in a warmer region. The audience,at least, those with whom we have conversed, are with us in the opinion, that Mr. Caulfield both offended and insulted them on this occasion, and the best proof they could possibly advance of the truth of this assertion, is that they gave him a pretty general hiss.

If Mr. Caulfield supposes, that because he may have been correct in his various parts, and in his sober senses, for a few weeks, he ought not to be censured for his misconduct on Washington's birth night; the answer is apparent, that such disgrace is the more inexcusable on that very account; since it proves at once, his capability of doing well, and his want of shame in neglecting to do well.

As for your personal character, I will not, for the honour of human nature, suppose that you can wish to have it remembered. The condition of the present times is desperate indeed: but there is a debt due to those who come after us and it is the historian's office to punish though he cannot

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LETTER.—No. 5.

JUNIUS.

To His Honour LEVI LINCOLN, Lieutenant Governour of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

IT was believed by the Federalists and readily admitted by many of the least violent of your party, that the best policy to be pursued in relation to your Honour would be to suffer you to sink quietly from your conspicuous elevation, which is now on. ly distinguished by your vices, into the profound insignificance from which you originally sprung. Your immediate friends, by whom I mean the heads of democracy and the promoters of crime, are, it seems, of a different opinion. Their purposes require a man who has as little concern for the prohibitions of vir tue, as conception of the benefits of wisdom; who is equally destitute of shame for his misconduct, and desire of amendment. If they relinquish your Honour as a candidate at the approaching election, they may seek in vain throughout the prostituted ranks of democracy, for another leader so thoroughly drilled into the discipline, and qualified in all the vices of the service. No, sir, they consider you a statesman, who, not only in your religious and political creed, but in the virulence and incincerity of your practice, is the brightest ornament of your party. I hope, though it is an inferiour, it will not be a useless task, to endeavour to discover, and to portray those eminent peculiarities of character, which have rendered you so sufficiently base as to out-darken all your competitors for the praise of possessing the Vol. 1.

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fittest requisites to lead the democrats of Massachusetts. I would not have you suppose that I consider the investigation of any further importance, than as it is connected with political views; my principal object in considering your merits, will be to form some adequate estimate of the virtue of a party who will readily acknowledge such a man as your Honour to be their most accomplished compeer. I shall hope by such an attempt to rouse mistaken men from the extacies of their political delirium, and cause returning reason again to shed its light upon their minds.

I confess with reluctance that I am in some degree unfit for the task I have undertaken, for while it is evident that you are the most renowned hero of your party, yet I cannot possibly discover in your productions, any strength of mind, which should cause you to be famous, nor in your opinions sufficient plausibility to render you popular. Your vices too, are in no other respect peculiar, than as they are more malignant, than those of your brother democrats; so that I am reduced to this alternative; either you have concealed your abilities from all mankind excepting the chiefs of your party, or the great extent of your reputation rests entirely upon the blackness of your political infamy. You relieve me from the degrading necessity of following your career, through the grovelling baseness of your early life, until you have ascended to the pinnacle of your earthly ambition; your conduc as Lieut. Governour of this Commonwealth, is amply sufficient for my purposes. You now fill a large space in the eye of the publick, you are a conspicuous figure, always open to the adulation of your friends, and exposed to the denunciations of your enemies. Your deeds in this station have been worthless enough to gratify the revenge of the most malignant of your adversaries, and there is no necessity that they should pollute themselves with the scum of your former transactions, to ascertain more clearly the unworthy motives, by which you were at that time inAluenced.

The first circumstance which has distinguished your adminadministration is an avowal of sentiments notoriously inconsistent with the principles of the constitution, and evidently intend. ed to be prostituted to the interests of party. Sensible that the term of your duties would soon expire, and that the virtue of integrity would not be satisfactory to your friends, you deter. mined to gratify their ambition at the expense of the welfare of

the country; and render your administration, remarkable in the annals of the state, first by the profligacy of your doctrines, and then by the enormity of your conduct. Without any sense of your own dignity, or that of the commonwealth, you have dared secretly to undermine the ramparts of the laws. The President knew you to be ready to promote any scheme, however unconstitutional, by any stretch of power, however oppressive. He knew you to be a creature whose inclinations and professions afforded him a sufficient pledge that his personal revenge should at any rate be executed, in spite of any provisions in the laws or constitution which opposed it. Far from acting with the open, the undisguised patriotism of Governour Trumbull, who dared peremptorily to refuse his compliance with an illegal demand; you secretly and meanly followed the inclinations of your patrons at Washington, and one of the first of your official transactions was an absolute defiance of the very laws of which you are the ostensible guardian. This odious and contemptible behaviour is only an ebullition of that spirit of malignity, which without ever aspiring to the dignity of generous opposition, has marked the course of your whole life with a series of little, underhanded attempts to subvert the intentions of your political opponents. It remains to be seen how you will overcome the well supported charge for a deed which reduces all your other enormities to insignificance, and places an ulcer upon the forehead of your crimes, which excites all our attention, and engrosses all our abhorrence. Making every allowance for your ignorance, it appears evident from the features of the transaction, that you knew, in calling out any part of the militia of this state, you were acting without justifiable authority. The constitution, which you have always pretended to understand, you must have known, if you knew any thing, expressly dictates under what authority the President may call out the militia. He did not conform to it, he did not dare to conform to it. He dare not proclaim the citizens of this commonwealth in a state of insurrection. How could he order insurgents to disperse,' when there was no meeting of insurgents? How could he proclaim his intention of rivetting the chains in which we were manacled, by a military power, when we professed no open intention to burst them asunder? No, sir, he intended, and so did you, to coerce the people into submission to his tyranny, by secretly sapping the