feffion they were formerly wreed by the
fuperior energy of the British arins. The
The
poffeffion of Louifiana, by the French, is
certainly a fubject of ferious confequence
to the English fettlements at Quebec and
Novafcotia; and Bonaparte may have oc-
cafion to obtain the confent of England as
well as Spain, before he can take quiet
poffeffion.
[Bofton Gazette.]

magnanimous and juft, was new or impof- In fhort Louifianians, you will find in
fible-who, to the talent of achieving your Chief Judge, genius, impartiality, and
the most fplendid victories, united the more difinterellednefs. He comes to you already
extraordinary one of combining and fecur-
extraordinary one of combining and fecur-known by the fame of his talents, by his fuf-
ing to them the moft happy confequences: ferings and misfortunes.
who, by the afcendancy of his mind com-
manded at once terror from his enemies and

on her own basis, to eftablifh her in the
whole extent of her limits, and to erase all
the blemishes of her hiftory.

confidence from his allies ---who, by his penetrating genius, difcriminated the true interefts of his country, and, by an irrefiftA late letter from a refpectable mercan- able will, gave operation to thofe interefts: tile house in London, contains the follow-who, in fine, was born to replace France ing obfervations on the prefent ftate of political affairs between the Governments of France and England: A meffage was fent on Sunday to Bonaparte with the ultimatum of our Court, which is believed to be, that in confequence of the frequent infraction of the Treaty of Amiens, by the French in Switzerland, and their annexing Piedmont and Parma to France, we felt authorised and determined to retain Malta, and to infift that New-Orleans and Louifia. na fhall be reftored to Spain, or given up to the United States of America fo that the navigation of the Miffiflippi fhall on no account be left in the power of France."

Ibid.

The following curious article, (fays the Gazette of the United States) forms a ve. ry appropriate comment on Don Marquis's hand-kiffing note to our Secretary of State.

From the PHILADELPHIA GAZETTE.

[TRANSLATION.] PROCLAMATION.

In the name of the French Republic,

L'AUSSAT, Colonial Prefect, TO THE LOUISIANIANS.

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This man, Louifianians, prefides over our deftinies. From this moment he is the pledge of your happiness. To fecure this, in this fortunate foil, it is only neceffary to affift the prodigality of nature. This is the defign of the French government.

To cultivate peace and friendship with all your neighbours; to protect your commerce, encourage your agriculture, people your deferts; fofter induftry, refpect property, customs and opinions; pay reverence to religion; to honour virtue; to fecure to the laws their fovereignty, and to correct them only as the light of experi ence may dictate; to introduce permanent order and economy in all the branches of the public adminiftration; to unite fill clofer the ties which the fame origin, the fame morals, the fame difpofitions have created between this colony and the mother country; thefe, Louifianians, are the honourable objects of the miffion of your captain general Victor, your colonial prefect and your chief judge. Thefe, they are happy to fay, are the motives with which they come to mix with you.

The reputation of the Captain Genera! has doublefs even here preceded him. Companions in arms with the Firft Conful, he diftinguifhed himself, from the commencement of the campaign of the famous armies of Italy. In lefs brilliant days, he aftonifhed Suwarrow by precipitating his

Your feparation from France marks one of the moft fhameful epochs of her annals, under an enfeebled and corrupt government, after an ignominious war, and a difgraceful peace. To that cowardly and unnatural aban-flight: He was in fine, one of the lieuten donment, you prefented the contraft of heroic love, fidelity and courage.

The hearts of all Frenchmen were foften

ed by the fpectacle. They never let it flip their remembrance. They then exclaim. ed, with pride, and have never fince ceafed to repeat, that the blood of France runs in your veins.

As foon as they had regained their dignity and their glory, by the revolution and a train of prodigious triumphs, they turned towards you their affectionate attention. You conftituted a part of their first negociation. They wifhed your retrocellion to accompany and fignalize their firft peace.

The time was not yet arrived. It was neceffary that A MAN fhould appear, to whom nothing which is natural, great,

ants of Bonaparte, at the battle of Maren-
go! Surrounded with thefe titles, the il-
luftrious pledge of his fame, he comes to
rendering himfelf dear to you, by the exer-
you, Louifianians, with a lively defire of
cifes of all the virtues, the cares, and induf
try, which devolve on the chief of a hap-
py people. His ardour for your profperi-
ty, the uprightnels of his intentions, the a
greeablenels and affability of his addrefs
and manners, which are even ornaments to
his military laurels, will fecure to him your
affection and confidence. He brings with
him a part of thofe troops who have made
the earth tremble, even to these remote
fhores. Batavia, fince the peace, has ad-
mired their good condu& and excellent
difcipline. You may like her admire and
esteem them.

Under every circumftance you will have reafon to rejoice at having become French, you will daily feel more and more the value of that, fplendid title, the object of the envy of the whole globe.

We know, nevertheless, Louifianians, and will not diffimulate it, that during thirty years, Spain, by the temperance of a generous and mild government, has endeav oured to make you forget the grievous fault of an unworthy agent of this noble nation -She is our clofe and faithful friend. It will not be us who will inftigate you to repay her mildness with ingratitude. We will endeavor, by acts of munificence, to emulate the policy of the Chief he had given you. Your attachment for the French Republic, our common country; your gratitude to thofe who protect you, and the daily fight of your growing profperity, are the objects which we fhall aim at; with a zeal and affiduity, which only can be limited by the fulfilment of all our duties and all our wifhes.

New Orleans, the 11th year of the French Republie.
L'AUSSATT.

By the Colonial Prefect,
The officer of administration, acting as Secretary.
DAUGEROT.

The Knot.

MARRIED,

In this city, Sunday evening last, Capt. ReuBEN MORE to Miss HEPZA HUZZEY, both of Hudson.

At Reading, Connecticut, Rev. BETHEL JUDD, rector of Christ church, in this city, to Miss MARGARET HERON, daughter of William Heron, Esq. of that place.

The Knell.

DROWNED,

On Friday last, by the oversetting of a small skiff on Hudson's river, PaILIP MURPHY, a young man belonging to this city.

To Correspondents.

The communication, under the signature of "PARVUS HOMO," is, for cogent reasons, inadmissible.

[From the first Volume of the Gazette of the United States, which a friend has obligingly loaned us, we copy the following extract :-]

THRICE happy age, the youthful Poet cries,

Ere laws arose, ere tyrants bade them rise;
When all were blest to share a common store,
And none were proud of wealth, for none were
poor;

No wars,
no tumults vext each still domain,
No thirst of empire, no desire of gain ;

No proud great man, nor one who would be great,
Drove modest Merit from its proper state;
Nor into distant climes would Avarice roam,
To fetch delights for Luxury at home:
Bound by no ties but those by nature made,
Virtue was law, and gifts prevented trade,

IN the year 1349, the Countess of Salifbury a niftrefs of Edward III. happened at a court-ball to drop her garter; and the King taking it up, exclaimed, Honi foit qui male penfe;""evil to him that evil thinks.' In memorial of this trivial event, he inflituted the order of the garter, and gave the foregoing words as the motto of the order. It is the most dignified order in England. Only twenty-five perfons befides the King were originally admitted; and the number has never been increafed.

IN the 7th century, when an hired af faffin made a defperate attempt at Edwin, King of England, Lilla, one of his courtiers, feeing no other way to fave the life of his prince, fprung between him and the affaffin's dagger; which he received in his own vitals, and inftantly expired.

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Driginal Effays.

66 HAIL SACRED POLITY, BY FREEDOM REAR'D !

66 HAIL SACRED FREEDOM, WHEN BY LAW RESTRAIN'D !"

BEATTIE.

HUDSON, (NEW-YORK) TUESDAY, MAY 24, 1803.

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

FOR THE BALANCE.

ON THE USE OF FIRE.

[CONTINUED FROM OUR LAST.]

TRAVE

RAVELLERS tell us of fome LERS favage tribes in warm climates, who have no knowledge of the ufe of fire; but dread it and flee from it, in the fuppofition that it is a creature of a fpiteful nature, that will bite and destroy them. However ftrange this may appear, it is not altogether improbable. If a number of children male and female fhould be left on fome warm ifland, the fpontaneous productions of whofe luxuriant foil fhould feed and fupport them, and fhould there grow up and propagate the fpecies, fecluded from the rest of mankind; in the event of fire, kindled in their fight by lightning, or, as it fometimes happens, from the intensity of the rays of the fun, they would gaze upon it with pleafing wonder; they would approach and touch the beautiful flame; -when the inflant pain from the burn would cause them to retreat with confternation and difmay, Long would they remember the venomous bite of this ftrange ferpent; they would tell the frightful tale to their children; and feveral generations might pafs away, before any one of them would obtain any knowledge of the ufe of fire, or even venture to enkindle it.

| muft have paffed away before mankind attained to the skill of manufacturing that moft precious metal.

Though the world is almoft fix thoufand years old, every age is ftill making fome addition to the flock of human knowledge, respecting the mechanical ules of fire.The wifeft men of antiquity, a Socrates, a Pythagoras, or even a Solomon, could no wife have imagined the astonishing effects, which are produced by a single spark of fire, in the inftances of its application to

he ftole fire from heaven, might probably
have originated under circumftances fimi-
lar to those which have now been men-
tioned. It is not unlikely that Promothe-
us, living among a favage people and pof-
feffing fome burnifhed convex substance,
by means whereof he was able to con-
verge the rays of the fun and bring them to
a focus, had enkindled fire, from time to
time, among the leaves and in fight of the
savages; and had gradually taught them to
kindle and use it. Hence he was accufed
facrilege, and the fable fays that a vul-gun-powder :-and much lefs the poffi-
ture is eternally feeding on his liver: fo it bility of diverting the courses and shielding
has been believed that Fauftus, the inven- men from the fatal effects of lightning;
ter of printing, was a wizard, and that he
which has been evinced by the discoveries
was carried off by the devil.
of the American Promotheus, Doctor
Franklin.

The various kinds of feam-machines are alfo of modern invention. The irrefiftible force arifing from the expansion of confined air; and the power of fire to

Vulcan, a deity of no in confiderable notoriety among the ancient Greeks and Romans, and who is reprefented in the pagan mythology, as labouring in fire and forging thunderbolts for Jove, obtained his title to godfhip, by inftructing fome ig-produce fuch expanfion, either fuddenly norant nation in the application of fire to mechanical ufes. The wondering favage, taught to fmelt the ore, to forge the precious iron, and to mould it into ploughfhares and pruning-hooks and the various inftruments for domeftic ufe, was naturally led to place his inftructor in thefe ufeful arts, in the rank of gods. Indeed his claim to be fixed among the flais was much better than that of the ancient Hero, whom the pagans adored under the name of Mars; who rofe to the poffeffion of divine honours over heaps of flain, and whofe hands were full of blood."

The ante-deluvian Vulcan was TubalCain. He appears to be the first artificer in iron; and as he was of the fixth

or gradually, as beft fuits the purposes of man, give room for an endlefs variety of ufeful mechanical inventions; which may probably be multiplying and improving as long as the world fhall fland. In a word, how to warm apartments with the leaft poffible quantities of fuel; how to apply fire to all the mechanical uses of which it is capable; and how to govern, check and extinguish it in the most eafy and expeditious manner, is an inex. hauftible fcience, in which mankind will be always advancing and improving.

M.

Gun-powder was invented by Roger Bacon, an English Friar, in the year 1280. Sixty years after its invention, it was first suggested as useful in war,

The ancient fable of Promotheus, that generation from Adam, feveral centuries by Swartz, a munk of Colɔgne,

Political.

FROM THE U. S. GAZETTE.

TOM PAINE has recommenced his

ufeful labours," and again addreffed the citizens of the United States through the medium of the Aurora. In that paper of this morning we are favoured with his "Letter the Sixth" to the citizens of the

United States. This letter, like most of his other productions fince his arrival in the country, is compofed principally of encomiums upon himself and upon his proupon his projects for reforming the world, and abufe of General Washington's administration. The only thing worthy of notice in this publication is a copy of the whole of Mr. Jefferfon's affectionate letter of invitation to Paine. We have marked in Italics

in a pamphlet, and under your own name. ces required. Mr. Monroe was entrusted
Thefe papers contain precifely our prin.
with the conduct of our moft important
ciples, and I hope they will be generally re- concerns, when they demanded prudence,
cognized here. Determined as we are to found difcretion, and firmnefs; but he
avoid, if poffible, waiting the energies of manifefted fuch entire deftitution of thefe
our people in war and deftruction, we fhall requifites, as involved this country in
avoid implicating ourfelves with the pow-much difficulty, and, but for his recal,
ers of Europe, even in fupport of princi- might have produced our ruin. To plunge
pics which we mean to purfue. They this country into the war with France a-
have fo many other interefts different from gainft England, and most of the nations of
ours that we muft avoid being entangled in Europe, was an object fairly evinced, and
them.-We believe we can enforce thofe openly advocated. It was ftrongly urged,
principles as to ourfelves by peaceable that the United States fhould afford men
means, now that we are likely to have our
and money, for the affiftance of our "dear
public councils detached from foreign allies," and it was generally offered by
Mr. Monroe, to give up a neceffary and
important right, guaranteed by our then.
exifting treaty with France; and alfo to
open not only our public treafury, but al-
fo thofe of the ftates, and of individuals, to
aid French rapacity in enflaving and plun-

views. The return of our citizens from

the phrenzy into which they had been
wrought, partly by ill conduct in France,
partly by artifices practifed upon them, is
almoft extinct, and will, I believe, become
quite fo. But thefe details, too minute and

--

that part of which was laft fummer publifh-long for a letter, will be better developedering the other nations of Europe. This

ed in this country, from European newfpapers, and which was made the theme of a feries of effays in this Gazette. Several things in this affectionate letter from the greatest Philofopher to the greatelt Blaf. phemer in the world deferve the ferious attention of the people of the United States. As it will no longer be a queftion with any one whether Mr. Jefferlon really wrote fuch a letter to his table companion and bofom friend, we prefume the democrats, efpecially thofe of them who profefs ciriltianity, will find much edification in peru fing this brotherly epiftle. It will be noticed that Mr. Jefferfon becane prefident of the United States on the 4th of March 1801, and that he delayed no longer than

"

by Mr. Dawson the bearer of this, a meni-
ber of the late congrefs, to whom I refer
you for them. He goes in the Maryland
floop of war, which will wait a few days at
Havre to receive his letters to be written

is evident in almost every page of Mr.
Monroe's defence.
Monroe's defence. A few extracts how.
ever, will fuffice, to evince his zeal to
promote the intereft of his country.
Thus he wrote to the committee of pub.
fafety Oct. 25. 1794.

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on his arrival at Paris. You expreffed alic
wish to get a peffage to this country in a It is my duty to inform you that I
public veffel. Mr. Dawfon is charged am under no inftruction to complain of,
with orders to the captain of the Maryland or requeft the repeal of, the decree au-
to receive and accommodate you back if thouifiog a departure from the and
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you can be ready to depart at fuch a shot 24 cles of the treaty of amity and
warning. Rob. R. Livingston is appoi
commerce;" [thefe articles flipulated,
ed minifter plenipotentiary to the republ. that free ships fhall make free goods, and
of France, but will not leave thus, till ve
that all goods thall be free except thofe that
receive the ratification of the conventio.
are termed contraband; and specified what
by Mr. Dawfon. I am in hopes you will
I am in hopes you will articles fhall be deemed contraband. The
find us returned generally to fentiments French government had pafled a decree
worthy of former times. In thefe it will authorizing their fhips, privateers, and
be your glory to have feadily laboured and
cruizers to pay no attention to these arti
with as much effect as any man living.cles, and thus let loofe their whole naval
That you may long live to continue your force upon our defenceless commerce,]
useful tabours and to reap the reward in
the thankfulness of nations is my fincere
prayer. Accept affurances of my high
esteem and affectionate attachment.

THOMAS JEFFERSON.

FROM THE SAME.

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ment made, you should be of opinion, "that it produces any folid benefit to the Republic, the American Government will not only bear the departure with patience, but with pleasure!"

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The plain language of all this is, break your treaty with us-capture our pre-fhips-plunder us of our property, beat and imprison our feamen, and if, on con

till the 18th of the fame month before he
gave orders to one of the hips of the navy
to" receive and accommodate" his friend
and correfpondent. By the first sentence
of the letter it appears that these loving and
congenial fpirits had been previously in
habits of uninterrupted correfpondence.
No less than four kind epiftles between the
ift and the 16th of O&tober! By the part
immediately fubfequent, it is evident that
they had been plotting fome vaft fchemes of
reform, which, inftead of " wafting the en-
ergies of the people," will probably contri-
bute to the multiplication of the human
race," and to the extinction of fuperftition
IT is well recollected, that when the
and pricft-craft throughout the world. fent ruling party were the minority, they u
But we keep the reader too long from the niformly manifefted a ftrong anxiety that
letter itfelf. Here it follows. We know the government of the United States fhould
not in what fit of intoxication the Blafphe-afford affiftance for the promotion of the
s induced to make it public. His
caufe of liberty in France. This difpofi.
This difpofi
tion was frikingly difplayed by Mr. Mon-
friend, the Philofopher, will not thank him
for it,
roe when minifter of that country, and by
the fupport and approbation which his con-
duct received from the Jefferfonian fect af-
ter he had been difmiffed by prefideat
Washington, and alfo by the appointment,
which he has lately received, of minifter
extraordinary to the courts of France,
Spain, or wherever he may find his fervi-

mers

WASHINGTON, MARCH 18, 1801.

DEAR SIR,

Your letters of O.'1ft, 4th, 6th 16th, came duly to hand, and the papers which they covered were according to your permiffion, published in the news-papers and

fideration, it is of any benefit to the REPUBLIC, we fhall bear it with PLEASURE. This was the language of an American Minifter !—and that minifter is again fent to the fame country, with two millions of dollars to purchafe-what ?-the permif. fion of enjoying our own rights!!!!

But again-Mr. Monroe wrote thus to the Secretary of State, on the 20th November 1794.

"I was invited by the diplomatic mem "bers of the committee of public fately "to a conference on a new topic: I was

"informed it was their intention to prefs || "the war against England in particular;

but that they were diftreffed for funds, "and afked could any aid be obtained " from the United States? I told them I "was fatisfied if it was in their power, it "would be rendered." This, it will be noted, was after our declaration of Neutrality.

In his fubfequent communications to the diplomatic members of the committee of public fafety, he obferves,

"It It is the with of the French Repub"lic to obtain, by loan, a fum of money "from the United States of America to enable it to profecute the war. "This is to be expected from three four"ces; the General government, the State "governments, and from individuals.

"The French caufe and the French nation are greatly regarded in America, " and I am perfuaded fome money may be "obtained, and perhaps a very refpectable

"fum from the three fources above men"tioned."

Thus it was that Mr. Monroe's communications to the French Government conftantly encouraged the hope, that the United States would contribute to fupport the expenfes of the war, and in the reprefentations to his own government he strongly and conftantly urged the meafure. He fays to the Secretary of State-"I fincere

having declined a re-election; a number
of candidates have offered themselves, as
ufual, to the notice of their fellow-citi-
zens, through the medium of the newf-
papers. One of thefe is Mr. S. D. Purvi
ance, who appears to be a man of talents
and independence; and a Federalift of the
"old fchool.". He thus gives his opin-
ion in an addrefs to the electors :-

"

"If preferring the form of govern-
ment adopted by the people of the United
Repub-States, to any other form of government,
defignates the Republican character, I am
then a Republican, for I think the rules of
action refulting from that form more fafe
for the liberties. and more advantageous
to the interefts of our country than any
other. But if a determination to fupport
the conftitution, which is the great bond
of our union, and the only pillar on which
our government ftands, be Federalifm, I
deem" the fage and politic counfels of
am a Federalift. If" with reverence 1
Washington, and the prudent and whole-
fome adminiftration of Adams, preferable
to the chimerical vagaries of a fublim-
ated fancy," or the vifionary fpeculations
of an unpractifed theorist, be Federalism,
I am a Federalift. If preferring
"that
firm and energetic fpirit," which, while it
preferved" pure and undefiled" the civil
and religious liberties of the people, main-
ica, and raifed her political confequence,
tained alfo the national dignity of Amer-
to a height before unknown-If, I fay,
preferring this fpirit of adminiftration, to
that feeble and temporifing policy which
would proftrate the dignity of our coun-
try--If preferring it to that narrow mind-
ed felfifhnefs, which would hazard the in-
tereft of five millions of people, from a
fear and dread of injuring its own-If
preferring it to that infatiable thirst for
anarchy, which, not contented with def
troying the fence which the conftitution
had erected around the liberties of the
people, would alfo tear off the laft hold
which they had upon happiness, by im-
porting and cherishing in the bofom of
our country the wretch who had calum
piated the illuftrious Washington, and
blafphemed his God-If this preference,
I fay, be Federalifm, I AM A FEDER-
ALIST.

ly with we may affift them if poffible; "and am perfuaded the people would "cheerfully bear a tax, the product of "which was to be applied to the French "Republic," and then tells the commit"tee of public fafety, that "the fum which "might be raised in America, would in his "judgment, be confiderable."

All this Mr. Monroe well knew, was a direct departure from our neutral declaration, and the course we were bound to purfue; but it was a favorite plan of the Jef. ferfon party to lend money to France, and involve the country in the war. The fuccefs of this plan however, was fruftrated by Prefident Washing on, and the mortification and regret of the party have been eminently confpicuous. Now raised to power they feem determined to perfevere in their fyftem, fo far as circumftances will allow, and Mr. Monroe has already departed with two million of dollars to be expended, as he fhall judge proper, among our "good allies" and "generous friends,' the French.

From a late North-Carolina Paper.

THE PLATFORM OF FEDERALISM.

MR. GROVE, one of the Reprefentatives of the State of North-Carolina, in the late Congress of the United States,

"But although I am, and ever have been, in these relpects a Federalist, I will take the liberty of repeating a fentiment which many of you have heard me frequently exprefs-" that I will always be willing to fecond and fuftain any propofition, from whatever fource it may de. rive its origin, which I might think conducive to the intereft of my country, and will never be found advocating, from the mere fpirit of party, any mealure which might be prejudicial to its welfare."

Balance Closet.

In the American Mercury of the 12 h instant, published at Hartford, Mr. Babcock the editor, after declaring, in substance, that the democra's in Connecticut, tho' greatly defeated at the last election, are still increasing and will finally triumph, assumes the prophetic style and raves like one of the ancient Sybils, in the following terrific language:

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"When all Calabria fhakes beneath the "feet of the people, it is much more dread"ful than the local eruptions of Velu"vius and Etna. When the earth all a"round is falling in, tho' it be but flowly, the cruft is coatinually growing this. ner, and the poor wretches, without a place to caft their eyes to for fafety, muft e'er long be fwallowed up with fud"den deftruation, and there can be none to. "deliver. Let federal deceivers be affur"ed an extenfive fire is kindled under "them, whofe flames are increafing, tho' "there may be but few volcanoes exhibi"ting ebullitions.

Here a scene is disclosed, that is infinitely more horrible than the old gun-powder-plot. Surely every federal republican must stand aghast ;-his teeth chattering in his head and his hair bristling

on end.

What! Is Connecticut shaking like Calabria in the neighbourhood of some hidden Volcano ?—Is the earth all around falling in -Is the crust on which the people stand, continually growing thinner ?-Is an extensive subterraneous fire kindled ?-Are its flames increasing-Are several volcanoes exhibiting ebullitions; and are many more operating in secret-All this must be truly tremendous.

While we suspect that citizen Babcock, scorched in his imagination by the sulphurous fires which he so feelingly describes, has rather overcharged the picture, we are constrained to acknowledge the aptness of his similies. His comparing Jacobinical principles, the general diffusion whereof would be subversive of the bonds of civil society, to volca. noes, is a thought entirely just, tho' not new.

DEMOCRATIC CUNNING.

From a statement which appears in the last Bee, it would seem that the elections in Connecticut are conducted much after the manner of legislative business-that the votes are not given for two rival candidates, but that a single candidate is held up, and the votes taken in the affirmative and in the negative-for and against his election.

We should like to know what the Bee means by votes" against Trumbull." We aver there are no such votes given in Connecticut. If it means, that the candidate who was held up in opposition to, or ' against" Trumbull, received 8,071 votes, the statement is absolutely false. The whole number of votes for Kirby, was but 7,848.

"I don't know how to remove these large stones," said a labourer on a turnpike-road. "Call them federalists, and they will soon be removed,” replied a by-stander.