not do or fay any thing that could poffibly be conftrued into an abandonment of my country, or a denial of my obligations to my lawful Sovereign, for all the gold in America. Bradford knows well (and he might have told it when it would have been news) . that I was refolved not to ftay in this country, if the British treaty was not ratified. He often heard me fay, that if a war broke out between this country and Britain, I fhould immediataly leave it; and what is ftill more, he knows that I was at one time, in the year 1794, actually preparing to leave it, under the perfuafion that a war was unavoidable. This would have been news three years ago; but now it is no more than what every one who knows either me or my writings muft look upon as perfectly na

tural and confiftent.

Bradford publishes the difcovery as fomething calculated to injure me in the minds of the people of America. But where is the fcoundrel who will have impudence enough to fay, that I am the worse for being, and declaring myfelf to be, a native of England, and a fubject of the best of princes?-Where is the unnatural brute who would carefs me for dif owning the land where I firft drew my breath, where my forefathers lie buried, and where my parents yet live? What! forfwear my kindred, my country, and my King!-I would almost as foon forfwear my God. If there be a wretch among my fubfcribers, who would not execrate me for doing this, let him ftrike his name out immediately.

Thus it is, you fee, Goofy Tom, that I dread the effects of your wonderful difcovery.

Sovereign People of Virginia exercifing the Rights of Election.--Extracts from the proceedings of the House of Delegates, December 8, 1797. It appears to your Committee, from the information of William Munford, Efq. that he was prefent at the election

which was commenced for the county of Pittfylvania, and acted as a clerk of one of the polls; that the election was extremely crowded, and the crowd very violent and diforderly; that they preffed on the Sheriff in fuch a manner, that he could not keep his ftand within the bar, and at length forced the clerks out of their feats, and took poffeffion of the table; that feveral perfons appeared on the table and at the door in their fhirt fleeves, apparently prepared for combat; that the Sheriff was very induftrious in endeavouring to fupprefs the riot, and clear the Court-houfe, fo that he might proceed with the election; and once or twice the houfe was nearly cleared, and the votes again taken: but that the disorder and violence at laft was fo great, that the Sheriff and his clerks were compelled to retire from the Court-house; that the Sheriff, finding it impoffible to proceed with the election, was advised to close the polls, and return the truth of the cafe; that many perfons applied to the Sheriff, defiring to give their votes, but the Sheriff told them he could not take their votes ; and thereupon the Sheriff, with the confent of the candidates, proclaimed at the door or window that the poll was clofed, and that Meffrs. William Clarke and Robert Devin had a majority of the votes taken : that the informant could not fay who were the cause of those riotous proceedings, but thought the candidates in general seemed rather to encourage them, and that none of them took proper fteps to fupprefs them; that application was made to the informant by Mr. William Clarke, one of the candidates, to continue to take the votes at a time when the Sheriff was out of the way, and had refolved not to proceed with the election; to which he replied, that he could not proceed to take a vote, until directed by the Sheriff to do fo; that it was generally said that the people were kept by force out of the Court-house, by certain men pofted at the door for that purpose;

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that thofe men inquired of all who came to the door, whom they intended to vote for, and that they were admitted or excluded, accordingly as their answer pleafed or difpleafed those who queftioned them; but that the informant knew nothing of this of his own knowledge, yet he has reason to believe it, as he faw certain violent and diforderly men at the door, nearly stripped for battle, who appeared to be posted there for that purpose. It further appeared to the Committee from the information of the faid William Munford, that the candidates agreed that persons who were on the militia lift, without regard to the diftinction of the right of freehold, fhould be permitted to vote, and the perfons admitted to vote were examined by the Sheriff only with respect to their being on the militia lift, and not with refpect to their being freeholders.

Dutch. London, Oct. 18. The rejoicings on account of the victory were last night repeated, and the illuminations were general, particularly the Admiralty was most brilliant; and next to this may be reckoned the Manfion houfe. Covent-garden theatre could boast much elegance in colours and arrangement of its lamps, but there was little diverfity in the defign of any illuminations. The anchor, not in this inftance the fymbol of hope, but of fruition, was joined with the initials of Admiral Duncan's

name.

The streets were every where as light as in the daytime; we hardly witneffed a fingle house in darkness, nor had the fovereign people any occafion in the compass of our observation to exercise its imprefcriptive right of breaking windows.

Admiral De Winter was fo agitated after the late action, in attempting to get into the Circe frigate, which was fent to convoy him on board the Venerable, that he fell into the fea. Two of the failors of

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To this laft ftage is fallen the crafty, the vain, the ambitious demagogue Swanwick. In viewing a man in his prefent fituation, the heart is apt to mislead the understanding, and compaffion to get the better of juftice. But if we take time to reflect, if we judge from experience, this fpecies of blind compaffion, instead of being a virtue, is a most contemptible weakness, very rarely accompanied with true generofity and magnanimity. I would not give a farthing for the tenderness of your blubbering boobies, who have a flood of tears at the command of every whining rafcal.

Let thofe, who cry out fo loudly for compaffion on Swanwick, turn their eyes to his creditors; let them show a little of their volunteering fuperabundant pity to the many poor people, particularly the French, whom he has reduced to mifery and ruin; let them talk with these unfortunate and abused strangers, and I fancy they will be inclined to think with me, that their compaffion has been most prepofterously misapplied.

Bloody Republicans.-By one of the laft Paris papers it appears, that the discontents had arifen to an alarming height in the neighbourhood and the city of Marseilles. One of the fans-culotte generals, at the head of a detachment from the hordes in Italy, had arrived at Marfeilles, and had iffued a bloody proclamation, from which the following is an ex

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"Yes! return to your country, brave republi"cans! And you, good citizens! be comforted; you will fee friends, brothers, flaves of the laws; "but the most severe and determined executers of "the law.

"And you, miferable royalists, cowardly affaf"fins, facrilegious priefs! you, the execrable agents

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agents of tyranny! if the 18th Fructidor has not "deftroyed or driven you from the territory of the "Republic, the law has judged you; your crimes "are known; the time is come; I arrive to-day, "and to-morrow you shall not exist."

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This is fhort work. It is a proclamation that would have become Death or the Devil. There is nothing that hiftory, either true or fabulous, prefents equal to the infolent cruelty of these tyrants, or the fubmiffive baseness of their flaves. As Du Gour very justly obferves, the French are now no more fit for real civil or political liberty, than favages are. Their rulers are, therefore, in fome measure, juftified in thus treating them as a fort of two-legged cattle. This fans-culotte general uses much less ceremony than a butcher would.

Seceders from the English Parliament.-It appears, from the London accounts, that none of the leading members of oppofition were present in the House of Commons. The abfence of Mr. Fox, Mr. Sheridan, Mr. Gray, and fome others, is to be accounted for by their previous declaration, that they felt their efforts and their attendance to be equally unavailing.

The fellows were afhamed to be seen amidst the blaze of honour with which their adverfaries are now covered. *** would do well to retire into fome folitary part of the country, and, after having repented of his political and other fins, leave his earthly tabernacle decently dangling from the limb of fome sturdy old oak. As for Sherry, let him write farces, and occafionally join in the grimaces of the Thespian crew. His wit is always of the theatrical kind: it wants an expreffive countenance, or a comical carcafs, to give it eclat; and, as he is a good-looking fellow himself, it tumbles from his

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