After the reader fhall have examined and difcovered the accuracy of the above ftatement, let him calculate the annual intereft of the purchale money, the expence attending the fettlement, protection and other incidental charges which the poffeffion of that country muft neceffarily occafion, and fay, if our government has doae wifely, to give fo vait a fum for ka tract of country which as our Minister obferves, can only be cultivated by flaves and not to advantage by them." It would appear, that nothing could juftity this departure from Democratic economy, unlefs it be the mathematical rule by which they demonftrate, that the falaries of public officers when bestowed on federalifts, were fhamefully extravagant, but, enjoyed by democrats, wonderfully mod erate. FROM THE U. S. GAZETTE. IT is well known that one of the principal cenfures caft upon the adminiftration of gen. Washington was grounded upon the funding fyftem. It has been a theme of continual abufe in all the democratick papers. Yet thofe very papers are now extolling the wifdom of Mr. Jefferson in adding eleven millions of dollars to the funded debt of the United States. Great clamour was railed against the adminiftration of Mr. Adams because he did not effect a greater reduction of the national debt, though it was continually diminished, notwithstanding the enormous expenfe to which the country was fubjected in quelling the infurreétions of the democrats, and in protecting ourselves against their friends, the French plunderers. Now, in a time of profound tranquility, the national debt is to be increased fifteen millions of dollars in one year, for the purchase of a country moft of which is uninhabited and totally useless to the United States. Be it our weekly task, To note the passing tidings of the times. Hudson, August 30, 1803. The following afflicting circumftance lately occurred in the neigbourhood of Morris River, in Weft New-Jersey. A woman went in fearch of a hen's neft, and finding a hollow log, fuppofed the fowl might be in it, and fent a little girl, her daughter, to look for it;-the child no fooner entered the log than the informed her || mother the hen bit at her, and would not come off the neft; the mother told the child to pull her off-after waiting a short fpace, and hearing nothing of the child, the called to her but received no answer; the father of the child being called, fplit open the log, and found feveral rattle fnakes entwined round the body of the child, and one around her neck, and fhe had been bitten in feveral places, and quite dead. [New York paper.] - From a Raleigh, (N. C) buper of July 18. A little daughter of Capt. Ifaac M'Callum, of this county, met a premature death on Wednesday by the bite of a fnake or fome other poifonous reptile or infect. The child, while gathering blackberries in an adjoining field, a little before fun-fet, fuddenly cried out very bit terly. A negro went immediately to its affiftance, when fhe complained of being ftung by a nettle; but from the wound fequence which followed, it is believed which appeared, and from the fatal cona highly venomous fnake had bitten her in the inftep of one of her legs. Her limbs immediately began to fwell and look black, and fo rapid was the poifon (no effectual means having been taken to counteract it) that the next morning the child was--a corpfe. LONDON, JUNE 24. Some private letters were yesterday received from the Hague and Bruffels, the contents of which are of confiderable importance. An Army of referve, to which has been given the name of the Army of der the command of General De folles ; England, is now forming at Daventer, unand the number of troops already affembled between that place and Fluthing, is eftimated at a little fhort of 80,000 men. An encampment is immediately to be formed upon the Downs, near Dunkirk, and feveral regiments are ftationed be. tween Calais and Boulogne. More troops are under orders for the fame quarter, and there is very little doubt of the whole being deftined for the meditated attack on this country. According to a letter from Bois le Duc, forty battalions were fhortly expected to pass through that place, to join the "Armies of England and Hanover ;" and a number of fresh troops have lately been marched to feveral parts of Holland. JUNE, 30. We are extremely happy to find the unjuftifiable proceedings of the French Government in the feizure of Hanover, have at length induced thinifters to adopt that fpirited and decifive line of conduct, which can alone put a stop to aggreffions, which would otherwife know no end. The following was ftuck up at Loyd's yesterday: "Laft night Lord Hawkesbury communicated to the Foreign Minifters, that his Majefty had determined, that the entrance of the Elbe fhould be blockaded in the frictest manner." MARRIED, On Sunday evening, the 21st inst. at Claverack, PHILIP S. PARKER, Esq. Attorney at Law, of this city, to Miss JENNET MONELL, daughter of Dr. Monell, of Claverack. To Readers. Holt, in his last Bee, has made an attempt to get over his meanness towards his correspondent, "Cato," by a little wit-considerable prevarication-and a number of plurap falshoods. He says, Cato's essay" is composed of sophistry, slander, abuse, and libels on the president of the United States." A man must be possessed of an uncommon share of impudence, who can make such an assertion as this, when he must have known that the piece was to appear in the Balance, and that at least a part of his readers would have an opportunity of seeing it. The sophistry that Holt complains of, is sound and unanswerable argument, which he was afraid to lay before his readers. Of slander and abuse, the piece contains not a syllable. And so far from its containing libels on the president of the United States, it is well known, that the present president is not once mentioned in the piece. But even admitting that the piece is as bad as Holt represents it-is this any excuse for his altering the address, signature, &c. No! there is as complete a contrast between this conduct and what is honest and honorable, as there is between the characters of " Cato" and "Mark Anthony." The writer in the Balance, who uses the signa. ture of "Calculator," perceives that in his second number he was incorrect, in stating that the sum, that has been promised for Louisiana, is more than all the gold and silver coin in the Union. According to Mr. Blodget's Statistical Table, the whole metalic medium circulating in the United States, is sixteen million and five hundred thousand dollars; which is one million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars more than the sum, which is said to have been engaged in the purchase of Louisiana. There is, however, cause to conclude that the quantity of gold and silver coin has decreased, in the United States, since Mr. Blodget's Table was made; and that it is now decreasing. NOTICE. We are sorry to learn that the most unfounded reports have been circulated in the neighbouring towns with respect to the health of this city. It is conjectured that some person has attempted to give currency to the rumour from sinister motives. We assert, and we pledge ourselves for the correctness of the assertion, that the city, to our knowledge, was never more healthy than at this time. There is no person sick with a malignant fever, nor is there any prevailing epidemic within the city. The Wreath. FOR THE BALANCE. Messrs. EDITORS, The following production was actually picked up in Hudson a few days since. If it contains nothing objectionable, you will gratify a friend to your paper by giving it a place in the Wreath. THE POST-MAN's SOLILOQUY. IN the dry firm enclosure of a pair Of saddle-bags, a week's whole treasure lies, Of GAZETTES, BALANCES and BLES, fit stuft Tembroil the head of many a woeful wight, Who reads their whole contents, in ale-house, inn, Club-room, or 'mong some social band, made wise By such deep lore, where every nation's strength, Its rights and policies are found. Just so, In times e're this, Cervantes' frantic knight, From various reading, in book-knowledge deep, Went round his native land to make mankind Against their will be good, and bear the fame Of his fair Dulcines thro' the world. Come, then, Gazette, wet yet from press-fall oft You've told me truth-henceforth continue thus: Be still to virtue's cause a constant friend; Nor give a page to party's lying tale. Thou Balance, come-spread thy instructive page Wide as our land's extent ;-still watch the steps Our country's rulers take; nor suffer them, When wrong, t' escape the lash thy pen can give. Come, thou, most servile, temporising Bee, For thy wax-head can't ooze a thought to light, Whilst STODDARD finds his way to many a friend, And tells the passing tidings" as they rise; Must I, whilst thus I ride the country round, Such fabricated falshoods spread 'mong men ? But such th' unhappy lot of poor mankind, That some will sooner hear such tales, than those Which virtue propagates. The lowly herd, Whilst they are railing 'gainst the rich and great, Are blindly making some vain, crafty man A demagogue, to rule themselves at will. Is there a Doctor rides around, that in Of these, forthwith, as if electrified, To me, poor hawking news-man, one will say, Thus he, another says, how dare that man Our president defame. Ought he not know, Like England's king, his person's sacred made; Nor to be sported with by such vile men, Who weaken confidence to our head supremePrison and fine-may they his portion be! Another asks, if in Louisiana Adventurers can, at once, their fortunes make? Whether the president will patents grant? Or, if the great in power will sell the land, As formerly M'Comb's vast tract was bought? To satisfy, at once, these and much more, I pull the papers out, and let them readThen judge themselves-here my commission ends; For who so wise t'instruct half-learned fools? By day my business urges, and I haste T'escape the tongue of ignorance and prate; But when, for night, I've to the tavern got, There oft I hear the learned demagogue, (For each small circle one of these can boast) In language blustering and loud, explain The fate of kingdoms, empires and great states. His silent hearers plac'd around, applaud, And, with loud noise, dethrone all Europe's kings. Such noise as once was heard at Windham town, When bull-frogs, in their march, put all to flight, And threaten'd revolution to the world. Glad, when the hour of sleep arrives, to bed I hie-and such great politicians leave. Diversity. LIMA, the capital of Peru, in SouthAmerica, is a place of immenfe riches. "One remarkable fact is fufficient to de. monftrate the wealth of this city. When the viceroy, the Duke de la Palada, made his entry into Lima, in 1682, the inhabi. tants to do him honour, caufed the free to be paved with ingots of filver,amount ing to feventeen million fterling. "All travellers fpeak with amazement of the decorations of the churches, with gold, filver, and precious flones, which load and ornament even the walls." It is declared in a European Magazine, that the dress even of a private citizen's lady, at Lima, fometimes cofts more than forty thousand dollars. The ladies there are dreffed entirely in laces, instead of linen, and fparkle with rich diamonds What a Paradife for women! AN than Holland.* France is not quite a is fill much more abundantly forceable. in its application to the United States. The United States contain about one million fquare miles, and are inhabited by about five million white people; making only five perfons to a fquare mile; which is lefs than the thirtieth part of the population of France, apportioned to the ref Germany, which lies in the neighbourhood of France, is fomething larger, in extent of territory, as well as in population.pective areas of each country. The wilNow, making the fuppofition that Germany were a wildernefs, and that France were offered the poffeffion of it, not in commutation for millions of dollars, but gratis; would it be wife policy in France, merely for the fake of poffeffing additional territory, to accept the gilt and confequently to difperfe her population in set N enlargement of a nation's territory, that is already more than fufficiently extenfive, by diffipating its capi-tling this neighbouring wilderness ?-On tals, by difperfing and thinning its popula tion, and by "multiplying points of defence," tends to diminifh, rather than to increase its riches and firength. Mr. Livington, in his memorial, fagaciously re marks, "As one man is more ufeful by remaining at home, than two by removing at a diftance, a wife nation does not feek to colonize, until she has a fuperabundance of population, which fhe cannot employ in any other way." And applying this remark particularly to the French nation, he proceeds to say, Though very confiderable, the population of France is very far from having reached the term which renders colonies neceffary." Thefe fentiments of our honourable ambassador are undoubtedly juft. 66 France is populous, but not full; in proportion to her area or furface, fhe is a little more populous than Germany, England and Wales; but fhe is confiderably lefs populous than Italy, and much lefs. derness North Weft of the Ohio bears, to all the reft part of the territory of the United States, a little more than the proportion of four to fix. Mr. Hutchins, late Geographer of the United States, estimated this tract (after deducting all the furface covered with water) to contain two hundred and twenty million acres. South of the Ohio, and in the neighbourhood of the Miffiffippi, are immenfe tracts of un ry of Georgia, about twenty two million the refpe&able authority of Mr. Living. *Holland has the average number of two hundred and thirty-fix perfons to each Square mile. of the population of France. Maffachufetts (exclufive of the Province of Maine, most of which is yet a wilderness) has about forty inhabitants, to every fquare mile Connecticus about forty four.Thofe two States are, through mistake, fuppofed to be fall; vaft emigrations from each of them, and efpecially from the latter, have been yearly preffing toward the South and Weft: yet the population of France, which, (as the memorial ftates) is very far from having reached its ultimate term, is much more than treble to theirs. evil; and that it was high time its deftruc- "of the federal fong now is that Mr. Jef "the late adminiftration." "Holt says, the burden of the Federal song is that Mr. Jefferson paid Callender for writing against the late administration. This is wholly false. The Mr. Spencer then called witneffes to prove that Mr. Crotwell was the publifh-charge is explicitly this :-Jefferson paid Callender for calling Washington a traitor, a robber, and a per er of the paper, called the Wasp, from jurer-For calling Adams ahoary-headed incendia one of which, (to wit, No. 7,) the pref-ry; and for most grossly slandering the private char ent libel was extracted. It was proved that fome of the papers had been printed at the pres of the defendant-that they had been feen in his book-ftore. It was alfo proved that a file of the Wafp from In the United States, lands are "fuperabundant," but labourers are few and fcarce. They have not yet attained even to the twentieth part of a full population : therefore any more lands, for the mere purpose of fettlement and cultivation, they no more need, than they need plantations in the moon. Afide from the confideration that the fettlement of Louisiana or the Floridas, or either of them, might tend to bar off dangerous neighbours and perma-by one of his journeymen. Mr. Spencer nently to fecure the navigation of the Miffiffippi, it is questionable whether they would be worth receiving, if they were to be offered to this nation as a gift. If a promife of speedily fettling the bequeathed territory were made a condition in accepting the bequeft, national intereft would imperiously require its rejectinent. The truth of this fentiment will, I truft, be rendered apparent, from arguments and reafons, which will be offered hereafter. CALCULATOR. Liberty of the Press. A CORRECT HISTORY OF HARRY CROSWELL'S TRIAL. THE [CONTINUED.] It acters of men, who he well knew were virtuous These charges, not a democratic editor has yet dared, or ever will dare to meet in an open and manly dis cursion." He contended that the publication was merely a correction of the above falfhood in the B-e-a true statement of what the "burden of the federal fong" actually then called a witnefs to prove the truth was; and a challenge to an open and man. of the inuendoes. To this, the counfelly difcuffion. There was not even a for the defendant objected; and the chief charge made by the defendant against the juflice over-ruled the objection. The wit-prefident. He fays, the charge made by nefs was then examined, and teflified that the federalias, was not as Hoit had repre he understood the words Washington, Adfented; and he then ftates what that charge ams and Jefferfon, contained in the alledg- really was-to wit that "the charge ed libel, to mean as flated in the inuen. made by the federalifts, is explicitly this, does in the indi&ment. He believed the &c.-Now, he asked, if fuch a charge had inuendoes to be corre&t; and he stated the not been made? Yes-it had rung through ground of his opinion to be, that he had every corner of the continent. It had frequently feen fimilar charges in other been published at the very feat of govern papers prior to the publication of the alledged libel in the Wafp. ment. " Callender had published, repeated. ly, that Mr. Jefferion paid him for writ the Profpect before us." He had published a letter from Mr. Jefferson to himself, approving of the book, and offers The evidence on the part of the profecu-ing tion being clofed, the defendant offered to prove that he neither wrote nor indited, or devifed the publication in queftioning him fitty dollars. He then took up that it was handed to a perfon in his employ, and printed in his abfence, and without his knowledge or confent. This was over-ruled by Judge Lewis. The defendant's counfel then proceeded to address the jury.-Mr. Van Nefs began an argument of about one hour by itating that in cafes of libel, the jury had the power and the right to judge of the law and The fat. That they, and they alone, were the fole judges between the public and the defendant. That it was their province to determine, fift, Was the defendant the author or pubiither of the ailedged libel? Second, Was the publication in queftion calculated to disturb the peace of the peo ple of this ftate-to excite fedition ? And, third, Was it published with a malicious, feditious, and diabolical intent ? Mr. Van Nefs contended, that thefe queitions must be determined by the jury in the aflirmative, before they could ever pronounce the defendant guilty of the crime charged in the indictment. In a fpeech of fome length, he expatiated upon the above topics. He argued, with irrefillable force, that on the very face of the publication there was ample evidence against every prefumption of malice. It was introdu HE court adjourned until the next morning, when the jury having been impannelled, Mr. Spencer opened the caule on the part of the profecution. is impoffible for us to give, from the few notes in our poffeffion, his fpeech with mach accuracy. This, however, was the purport of it-That libellers were a very criminal clafs of offenders. That the government must be protected from their attacks. That the libel then to be tried, was of a very heinous nature; and, if true, was fufficient to confign the name of Thomas Jefferfon to eternal infamy, &c. But, by the direction of the Court, it cer tainly was not a fubject of inquiry whether it was true or falfe... For, whether true or falfe, by the law of this state, it was certa.nly libellous; and he tufted that the jury would fhow their deteftation of fuch flanders, by a verdict of guilty. That there was a great difference between the liberty and the licentioufnefs of the prefs. The one was a moft invaluable privilege,ced to correct a falfe charge made against which he would be the laft man to attack but the other was a growing and intolerable the federalifts in the Bre. He read the the " Profpe&t before us," and flated that numerous papers. The defendant him felt had never made the charge; nor had he declared it true. He was, therefore, not reiponfiole for it. He bad challenged 44 an open and manly cilcullion" of that charge, which he faid the federalifts bad made. And, he contended, that a malicious intent could never be inferred, either from the correction of the garbled statement in the Bee, or from his challenging a d cuffion of a charge again the character of Thomas Jefferfon. We regret that it is not in our power to give more than this faint fketch of this argument. But we are not without hopes that we shall yet have it in our power to give it at length. Mr. Van Vechten then rofe; and, in a fpeech which, for correctness and brilliancy of ftile, cogency of argument, and perfpicuity of arrangement, we have feldom, if ever, heard equalled, contended for principles fimilar to thofe advanced by Mr. Van Nefs. We fhall be able foon to give his argument to the public we fhall, therefore, refrain from mangling it by an attempted abridgement. (TO BE CONCLUDED NEXT WEEK.) Balance Closet. TO C. HOLT. To get rid of the charge of knavery, you are at length compelled to acknowledge yourself a very great dunce. You pretend that you declined publishing the production of “ Cato,” because it contained Libellous matter, which would subject you to indictment. If you really believed this, your manner of treating the piece, discovers your gross stupidity and ignorance. If you did not believe it, your total dis=regard for truth is equally apparent. With knavery, sent it, you alone are guilty of being, in the eye of "Mark Anthony" says that "Cato" had set a gull-trap to catch him. (Yes, reader, a gull-trap to CALLENDER. Some of the minor democrats make themselves crats? The democrats have often declared Callen- therefore, on one side, and folly on the other, you THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE; "the At the last presidential election, Col. Burr re- Toasts drank by the Democrats, in 1803. 1.] Aaron Burr, Vice president of the United States-to the right about face-3 flashes in the pan-rogue's march. 2.] Aaron Burr and Benedict Arnold-may traitors always meet their reward. 3.] The Vice president of the United States"Oh! fling away ambition, by that sin fell the angels."-Rogue's March. 4.] May the wheels of government never be clogged with Burrs. 5.] Aaron Burr-a tear on his infirmities, and let him and them be forgotten forever. The prating dunce, who scribbles nonsense, falshoods and bad grammar for the Utica Gazette, at the salary of sixty-dollars per annum, is solicited to have mercy on us as well as on his readers. It is certainly ungenerous in him, (blessed as he is with the most transcendant talents, and fattening on such an enormous salary,) to bear down, with unrelenting fury, the humble editors of the Balance. Strange, that a large salary or income, will so soon puff a man up with pride! What shall we do to obtain the favor of this implacable.editor? Alas! alas ! What shall we do? The late removal of Edward Livingston, Esq. from the office of Attorney of the United States for the district of New York, excites considerable curiosity; and many ask (besides our "Mark Anthony)”—What bas he done? We hope he was not appointed to office without giving satisfactory answers "Is he honest? Is he capable," to the questions, &c. We hope an officer of Mr. Jefferson's appointing, has shewn no “anti-revolutionary" disposition. But perhaps Mr. Livingston is a Burrite; and that, in the eye of some people, is worse than to be a federalist. A neat quarto paper, entitled "THE HIVE," has lately been established at Northampton, Massachusetts, by Mr. THOMAS M. POMROY. It is to be devoted to Literature and Politics; and, as it bears every mark of Federalism, we sincerely wish it success. |