Be it our weekly task,

To note the passing tidings of the times.

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Hudson, November 20.

By the fhip Oliver Ellfworth, arrived at New-York, from Liverpool, London papers to the 26th September, are received, but they contain little news of importance. The report that war had been declared by England against Spain, proves unfounded. The invafion was ftill expected,

We fully coincide with Mr. Coleman, in the following opinion of one part of our new governor's fpeech :

"The conclufion of the fpeech, recommending, as his "worthy and much refpected predeceffor" had done, the encouragement of literature," is deferving the warmest approbation. And we are happy to find, that on this fubject His Excellency is more explicit than his "worthy and much refpected predeceffor" ever thought it advifeable to be; for he has here pointed out the precife manner in which he thinks the object should be effected. He fays exprefsly, that " common schools, under the guidance of refpectable teachers, fhould be established in every village, and the indigent be educated at the public expence,"

"Such is the method for many years purfued in the New England States; (Rhode-Ifland excepted.) The laws enjoin it upon every town and parish to raise a fum of money by an annual tax upon the individuals compofing it for the fupport of a public school, and any town neglecting is liable to be indicted by the Grand Jury and fined. Thus the children of the poor man have as good a chance for a common fchool education, as thofe of his rich neighbour; the confequence is that no people in this or any other country, are, take the community together, fo well informed as the people of the New England States, with one exception. We repeat it therefore, that the part of His Excellency's Speech which recommends the adoption of fimilar inftitutions here, is entitled to the warmest and most unqualified commendation of every inhabitant of the fate of New-York." [Ev. Poft.]

Poulfon's American Daily Advertiser of the 3d inft. fays, "A gentleman of intelligence informs, that Mr. Wells, having removed from Delaware into the state of Pennfylyania, has refigned his feat in the

Senate of the United States, and that the || appointment of James A. Bayard, Efq. as his fucceffor, to take his feat the prefent feffion, is in contemplation,"

ABLE CONGRESSMEN.

It appears by the New-York Spectator, that James Cheetham, the able-editor of the American Citizen, had nine votes, in the late election, for Member of Congress! And that his co-patriot, Thomas Paine, who refides in New-Jerfey, had only one vote!

Four thousand two hundred and feventy two Slaves, have been imported into the city of Charleston, from the 1ft of January laft to the 22d of October. This will make an addition of 2,563 votes to Republicanifm in the ftate of South-Carolina in lefs than one year! Glorious Acquifition!!

We obferve in a Raleigh, N. C. paper, the mention of the murder of John Cook, Efq. High Sheriff, whilft in the lawful execution of the duties of his office, by a certain Thomas Jarrel or Thomas Fitz Jarrel, by firing a gun at him, the contents of which entered his cheek and paffed thro' his head.

By an arrival at Charlefton, Paris papers to the 4th Sept. have been furnifhed. The Emperor of Germany has added to his title Hereditary Emperor of Auftria, and has acknowledged Bonaparte as Hereditary Emperor of France. The talk of Invasion was continued-and Bonaparte was making a tour through Belgium.

Extract of a letter from Washington, received by this morning's Mail, dated November 5, 1804.

"Ever fince the fatal and horrid event

which deprived our country of its higheft ornament, my predictions have been that Colonel Burr would take his feat as Prefident of the Senate-This morning has verified them. Many are furprised, fome aftonifhed-tew indeed expected that he would be thus early in this step, and especially as he has rarely, if ever before, attended his duty in feafon. To brow beat public opinion is his object, and he is perhaps better calculated for this Herculean afk than most other men. How honorable, how glorious the fituation of our Nation!her fecond magiftrate prefiding in the first branch of the Legislature, while he ftands indicted for murder." [Evening Poft.]

CHARLESTON, OCTOBER 23. THE London Courier of Aug. 20, contains a statement of an attempt by Bonaparte, to take off by poifon, Louis the

XVIIIth, his Queen, and the Duke and Dutchess of Angouleme. This nefarious bufinefs was to have been effected by Bonaparte's Commercial Agents at Warlaw. Thefe agents applied to one Coulon, a Frenchman refiding at Warsaw, to introduce himfelt into the kitchen of the King, and throw unperceived into the boiler, a little parcel which fhould be given him.The price offered to Coulon by Bonaparte's agents for perpetrating the deed, was 400 louis d'ois, and 100 more for every individual of the royal family who might die in the course of a twelve month. Coulon, however, difcovered the plot to the friends of Louis XVIII.; and the parcel containing the poifon was found to confift of three different forts of arfenic,

A long proces verbal of the whole tranfaction was figned by the Archbishop of Rheims, the Duke de Pienne, the Duke D'Havre de Croy, the Marquis de Bonnay, the Comte de la Chapelle, the Comte de Damas Crux, the Comte Etienne de Damas, and the Abbe Edgeworth de Fer

Correspondents.

As Congress is now in session, and our paper must necessarily be much occupied by political matter, we request "PETER PALLET," to withhold

his communications for the present. The portraits and busts promised in his last private letter, will be very acceptable at some future day.

We have received from an unknown hand an ingenious, satyrical poem of considerable length. As we propose, when we publish it, to annex some notes and remarks, and as it could not all be, conveniently published in the present volume, we shall postpone it until the commencement of the next year. The author of it is invited, in the mean time, to continue his favors.

"LEANBER" received too late for this paper.

NOT to the rosy Maid, whom former hours
Beheld me fondly covet, tune I now
The melancholy lyre No more I seek
Thy aid Hygaia!* sought so long in vain.
But 'tis to thee, O Sickness! 'tis to thee
I wake the silent strings, accept the lay:
Thou art no tyrant warring the fierce scourge
O'er unresisting victims-but a nymph
Of mild though mournful mein; upon whose brow
Patience sits smiling, and whose heavy eye
Tho' moist with tears, is always fix'd on Heaven.
Thou wrapp'st the world in gloom, but thou can'st
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Of worlds where all is sunshine; and at length
When thro' this vale of sorrow, thou hast led
Thy patient suff'rers, cheering them the while
With many a smile of promise, thy pale hand
Unlocks the bowers of everlasting rest:
Where death's kind angel waits to dry their tears
And crown tam with his amaranthine flowers.

Yet I have known thee long! and I have felt All that thou hast of sorrow.-Many a tear Has fall'n on my cold cheek; and many a sigh Call'd forth by thee, has swell'd my aching breast: Yet still I bless thee, O thou chastening power, For all I bless thee! Thou hast taught my soul To rest upon ITSELF: to look beyond The narrow bounds of time, and fix its hopes On the sure basis of eternity.

Meanwhile even in this transitory scene Of what hast thou depriv'd me? Has thy hand Clos'd up the book of knowledge; drawn a veil O'er the fair face of nature; or destroy'd The tender pleasures of domestic life?Ah no! 'tis thine to call forth in the heart Each better feeling; thou awakenest there

The Goddess of Health.

That unconfin'd Philanthropy which feels
For all the unhappy: that warm Sympathy
Which, casting ev'ry selfish care aside,
Finds its own bliss in seeing others blest-
That Melancholy,-tender yet sublime
Which, feeling all the nothingness of earth,
Exalts the soul to Heaven; and more than these,
That pure Devotion which, even in the hour
Of agonizing pain, can fill the eyes
With tears of exstacy? such tears perhaps
As angels love to shed.-

These are thy gifts, O Sickness! These to me
Thou hast vouchsaf'd, and taught me how to prize.
Shall my soul shrink from aught thou hast ordain'd?
Shall I e'en envy the luxurious train
Around whose path prosperity has strewn
Her gilded toys-Ah! let them still pursue
The shining trifies; never shall they know
Such pure and holy pleasures as await
The heart refin'd by suffering.--Not to them
Does fancy sing, her wild romantick song-
"Tis not for them, her glowing hand undraws
The sacred veil that hides the angelick world.
They hear not in the musick of the wind
Celestial voices that in whispers sweet
Call to the flowers-the young and bashful flowers!

They see not, at the shadowy hour of eve
Descending spirits, who on silver wing
Glide through the air, and to their harps divine
Sing in soft notes the vesper hymn of praise:
Or, pausing for a moment, as they turn
Their radiant eyes on this polluted scene,
Drop on their golden harps a pitying tear.

Prosperity! I count thy gifts no more,
Nor thine, O fair Hygaia! Yet to thee
I breathe one fervent prayer: attend the strain.
If for my faded brow, thy hand prepare
Some future wreath; let me the gift resign.
Transfer the rosy garland; bid it bloom
Around the temples of that friend belov'd,*
On whose maternal bosom even now,

I lay my aching head! And as I mark
The smile that plays upon her speaking face,
Forget that ever I have shed a tear.

* Mrs. CURRIE, of Boston, Mass.

Diversity.

L.

FROM THE SHOP OF SIMON SPUNKEY, ESQ.

GRAVE REFLECTIONS.

IF the PEOPLE of the United States will not confider that "Honefly is the beft Policy," but will allow that creeping kind of cunning, for which Democrats are remarkable, to be a paffport to power, we may bid adieu to our Republicanifm at once. It will be like the Milton of a certain countryman, who, having heard it afferted that Paradife Loft was good po

the lines did not gingle like a bellman's ballad, fhook his head, exclaiming Confound the fluff, it wont go

[Bofton Palladium.]

EVERY houfe in France is now deco

rated with ftatues. Philofophy ftands on the ftairs and holds a candle. Modesty opens the curtains of the bed, and Mystery clofes those of the Elegantes. In all cafes the ftatues of Liberty and Equality are outfide the fireet door.

A GOOD DINNER SPOILT..

Mr. Rind-A good democrat gave me the following anecdote on the correctneís of which you may depend. Mr. Jefferfon invites to his houfe any who have faid hand fome things of him-Several mechanics a fhort time fince, and their wives, dined with him. The wife of one of them, intending to enquire the distance to Monticello, very fimply afked the Preftdent how far it was to Carter's Mountain! Treading on the toe, and winking the eye, were vain. They only made "confufion worfe confuled." [Wafh. Federalift.]

efily, merely becaufe opportunities have not offered to entice him to do otherwise. A man in the walks of private life may conduct himself with the greateft integrity, who in public life would play the villain. We fhould therefore be extremely careful, how we exalt men to office, who have no general reputation as a pledge for the proper difcharge of its duties. Entertaining fuch opinions as thefe, I was not a litthe furprised, in looking over the lift of eJectors of prefident and vice-prefident of the United States, chofen by our Legiflature during their late feffion, to find John Cramer amongst the number. This gen. tleman four years ago was a ftudent at college, and was admitted an attorney at law last fall only. If, as his excellency the governor fays, the chufing electors is "a truft important and interefting as any that can be repofed in the reprefentatives of a free people," our Legiflature in this one infiance have performed their du ty finely. I cannot learn that Mr. Cramer had any one quality to recommend him, but his being a zealous advocate of all the measures of the democratic party. The democrats in their elections feem to have proceeded upon the principle, that be, who is exalted, ought to be humbled, and that he, who is in a humble fituation ought to be exalted. However, although the federalifts may feel mortified for their country, when they read the democratic lift of electors, they have reafon to exult on their own account, when they compare that with their own lift. There are many names on the federal ticket, that Greece and Rome might have boasted of in the times of their greatest glory, whilft there is scarcely a name on the democratic ticket that would add any reputation to the moft infignificant Jacobin Club. federalifts then I think may juftly infer that the most intelligent of their fellow citizens are joined with them, and that their adver faries have none but the protanum vulgus;" and with confidence antcipate the day, when men reafoning calmly and foberly fhall fay, that the caufe, which is fupported by wifdom is glorious, and that which reits on folly and ignorance is difgraceful.

Yours, &c.

The

PHOCION.

Selected.

FROM THE U. S. GAZETTE.

IN all popular governments the field prefented to artful and deligning men, for a fuccesful evercife of their talents for in. trige, will ever be exier five, and multitudes will ever be found labouring therein.

In our country the fuccefs of fuch men has been greater, and continued longer, than could have been expected; but it is believed that the current of public opinion is changing, that our citizens will feel the fpirit and pride of Americans, and will confign to merited infamy thofe men (most of them foreigners) who have long laboured to tarnish the fame of our beft patriots, ftatefmen, and foldiers. We must indeed expect to witnefs the re-election of Mr. Jefferfon; but let it be obferved, that his next term of office" will be his laft.-The idol of democracy will be cast from his throne, and his worfhippers will be left, fome to wonder at their own folly and madnefs, others to weep over their fallen greatnefs. Reflect ing men of all parties begin to look, with lefs partial eyes, on the times which are paft, and to compare, with more juftice, the conduct of Mr. Jefferson with that of his predeceffors in office.

Such men begin to queftion more ferioufly the purity of Mr. Jefferson's morals, and his belief in divine revelation. They acknowledge that the example of men in high ftation has an influence on fociety; that the chriftian religion is the only fure foundation and fupport of good govern ment; and that the folemn obligation of an oath should be confidered as binding by all men in public office.

Every one is aware that although we have long had peace, we may have war; and that a man without nerves or military knowledge, is unfit to be the commander of an army and navy.

It is not believed, that Mr. Jefferfon's talents are of the kind to qualify him for the place he now fills. With fome knowl edge of the arts and fome acquaintance with natural fcience, he has obtained a high ftation among the philofophers of the prefent day; but furely no act of his life has difplayed a found and enlarged roind, nor an extenfive and minute acquaintance with political fcience.

All men admire confiftency of conduct. This was preeminent quality in the mind of Washington. The expofition of his political principles was uniform at all times, under all circumftances; and a lafting union of the flates was one of the objects that lay nearest his heart.

It is well known that Mr. Jefferson made many objections to the conftitution; one of which was, that it made no provi fion for a rotation in the office of Prefi. dent. He has, however, reconciled it to bis confcience, to join his party in the hypocritical cant, of being its warmeft friend: and the particular objection men. tioned is withdrawm.

In his notes on Virginia he pointed out in a very particular manner, the dangers to be apprehended, from emigrations to this country, from monarchical governments;

and spoke unfavorable of commerce.-Of late he has encouraged the former, and pretends to be a great friend to the latter,

If Mr. Jefferson did not advife, he concurred in measures dictated by the Virginia faction, that are calculated to weaken the union, and impair the conflitution. It appears to be his wifh to legiflate for the flate of Virginia, only; and to be the humble fervant of her demagogues.

His attack on the independence of the judiciary is perhaps the worst act of his adminiftration, as it was the death blow of our conftitution. Only by an impartial adminiftration of justice can perfon and property be fecured, and to effect this an abfolute neceffity exifts that Judges fhall be fecure in the tenure of their office.This was the main pillar in our conftitu. tion; it was the strongest bulwark against encroachment on the liberties of the citi zens, yet the rude band of democracy baş levelled it with the duft.

By the great wifdom and prudence of General Washington our country was fav. ed from a war with England in the memo. rable years '93 and '94. But for this wif. dom and prudence we should have been in. volved in the revolutionary contefts of France, and deftroyed by its principles, Let it be remembered, that of these principles Mr. Jefferson has ever been a most enthufiaftic advocate.

Much labour has been employed in commending the purchase of the unheal thy Iwamps of Louisiana, when the only advantage of the acquifition is, that the nation pays the Emperor of the Guals, fif teen millions of dollars for the navigation of a river to which it was juftly entitled by treaty, and to maintain which the may yet be involved in war.

The friends of Mr. Jefferfon boat much of his talents, as a writer; and for proof, exultingly refer us to his correfponderice with the minifters Genet and Hammond, and to the declaration of independence. It is well known, that the letters to the foreign minifters were the productions of abler and better men; and whoever may have been the author of the declaration of independence, the ftyle and compofition will never prove him to have been a schol

ar.

As a fpecimen of our Prefident's ftyle of writing, when confined to a fubject that required fomething more than the indulgence of fancy and declamation, we would refer to his answer to the addrefs of the New-Haven merchants, on the removal of their collector. As a further cVIdence of his confißency, we have only to turn to his inaugural meffage, and contralt its apparently conciliating language, with his fubfequeut condu& in removals from. and appointments to, office. When be wrote the meflage, he feemed to have for

ganized the government, and conducted its measures for the twelve preceding years. Nor can any one pretend that if our affairs had continued in the hands of men of equal talents and fimilar views, our nation would not now have been more happy at home and much more refpected abroad.

We have however much reason, to rejoice, that the change in favour of the meek and theoretic philofopher, did not take place in times more trying.

AN OLD OBSERVER.

FROM TILE SALEM GAZETTE.

The fair way to judge of the federal fyf. tem of politics is by its general effects, and not by particular acts. If the federalifts have committed errors, the most perfect of mortals have done the fame, but when the country was in the loweft ftate of dif. pondency they began the government; they administered it twelve years; they raifed the country, by a moft rapid pro. grefs, to the height of profperity; and if there is any good now exifting in our public affairs, it is the work of their hands. This is not to be contradi&ted. Bad principles never could have produced fuch a fteady courfe of good confequences. As the fruits we have enjoyed are excellent, the tree that bore them must be good. Why then should it be cut down? Are we tired of happiness ?

Editor's Closet.

STATE FACTS, SPEAK TRUTH, AND DIE MARTYRS.

That worthless creature, E. FOOT, (fometimes called the Knave of Clubs) on Friday last fent the editor of the Balance another scrap of parchment. He has taken unneceffary trouble. By begging in direct

The democratic candidates for electors of Prefident and Vice-Prefident, in Maf.

confident that they all pledged themselves to vote for Jefferfon, before they were chofen. They might, indeed, have thus pledged themfelves, for the very purpofe of deceiving the "Executive Directory;" but this we think is rather improbable.The circumftances attending Spencer's defeat, however, look fufpicious; and every body knows that democrats are the most faithless men on earth.

We have much lefs reafon to doubt the

electors, are determined not to vote for Jefferion. We should like to know what urgent bufinefs lately called a courier extraordinary from this ftate to Maffachu. fetts. But all's a mystery.

fachusetts, have been elected by a majority of near 4.000. We announce this with regret not because it can affect the election of Prefident and Vice-Prefident -nor because we deem it a proper crite-report that the Maffachusetts democratic rion to judge of the strength of parties in Maffachusetts; but because it will give the democrats an opportunity to exult will give a harsher tone to their infolence, and make them ten times more troublefome than ufual. Were the Maffachufetts electors to be federal, Mr. Jefferson would gain his election; and, being democratic, it can be no worse. This confideration, we doubt not, prevented the federalifts from turning out with the fpirit and zeal which they ufually evince. Indeed the election could not have been tho't very important in Maffachusetts; for the legiflature had the right of chofing the electors; and, having a federal majority, might have chofen federalifts: They yield. ed up this power, which they furely would not have done, had they considered it as an effential or important point.

But little exertion having been made by the federalifts, the democratic electoral ticket has prevailed in New-Hampshire.So we go.

ENIGMA,

TO BE SOLVED BY POLITICAL WISEACRES.

Who shall be our next prefident?

Pennfylvania, New-Jersey, Vermont,

New-York, Virginia, Maryland, Connecticut,

Massachusetts,

Federal Clinton. Jefferson. Candidate.

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Rhode-Ifland, 4
Delaware,
North-Carolina,
South-Carolina,
Georgia,
Kentucky,
Tenneffe,

It is ridiculous to pretend that the unexpected refult of the late election for electors in Maffachusetts is owing to a change in political fentiment. Before we can account for it in this way, we must believe that the change is no lefs than 8 or 10,000, fince last spring; and, furely, none but a fool or a madman can believe this. The defeat of the federalifts, we doubt not, is owing to their want of activity and perfeverance. To judge accurately of the strength of parties in Maffa- || Ohio, chusetts, we must wait until their next election for governor-and we fear not the refult.

A MYSTERY.

We do not give full credit to the report, that fome of our electors have declared their intention to vote for Governor Clinton as Prefident. It may be true; but we cannot believe it; because we are

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