It appears then, that, in the whole, there are but 238 persons, of which fearful number, 139 are women and children; and, of the 99 men, only 47 are negroes!-Once more, I say, compare this with PINKERTON, and the GOVERNOR's letters, and then doubt, if you can, the motives to which those letters ought to be ascribed.

Quintessence of Rascality.

The following paragraph, on the subject of the French Royalists, lately arrived here, is, I think, upon the whole, the most scandalous, insidious, base, and malicious, that ever I perused, even in an American Carmagnole Newspaper.

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a happy people, and as we may presume, that "Providence is on our side, we defy all their imແ potent and impious attempts, to check his views, "to lead us kindly by the hand to a state of inevi"table prosperity and happiness as yet unknown "on earth. Previous to our revolution, the Bri"tish insulted us, by emptying all their condemned "convicts on our shores-We supplicated in vain. "to prevent it, but mark the finger of Heaven"most of these very men entered into the American "army, and the greater part of them perished, fight

ing valiantly for the liberty of America. But now "that we are an independent nation, that they "should presume to vomit upon our coasts, at this "period the desperadoes of St. Domingo, is an insult "and an outrage which demands prompt repara❝tion. Many of the poor people are doubtless to "be pitied-and it is inhuman and savage in the

English, thus to abandon them to their fate, after "having promised them by repeated proclamations, "protection, and support. How many instances of "this kind were they not guilty of in this country,

during our revolution? How many proclamations "did they not issue, for protecting our deluded "tories of that day? and can any man recollect an "instance of their fulfilling their proffered faith? "No! It is therefore much to be desired, that we

may wash our hands clear of being entangled in "politics with such a faithless and corrupted nation.

wish to heaven all our treaties were broke, and "all our ambassadors recalled, and that it would "be made death for any public character, to promote "or propose treaties, or alliance with any European

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powers-How strangely is the scale reversed-we "have always been accustomed to view Indians "and Algerines, as a faithless, barbarous people. "The event has proved to our cost, that they are

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"the only people of virtue and honour, with whom we "have made treaties."

Now, reader, whose paper do you think this infamous paragraph is taken from?-From BACHE's, GREENLEAF's, BURK's, or the O'CAREY'S ?From neither, I assure you; but from that of the polite, the profound, and prophetical politician, NOAH WEBSTER, Esq. and quack, who, no longer than about ten days ago, wrote a letter to the Congress COIT, exhorting him to use his utmost efforts for correcting the abuse of the press!!

This sally of NOAH's, requires an observation or two. It has hitherto been believed, by the world in general, that the Independence of America, was atchieved by the valour and virtue of the Americans. I must confess, that I saw it in this light; but, NOAH has kindly undeceived us, by attributing a very considerable portion of the glorious atchievement to the condemned convicts," which Great Britain had emptied on these shores! This circumstance, if founded in fact, makes a very material change in the relative characters of WHIG and TORY.-Thank ye, NOAH, for this acknowledgement. If ever I hear you boast again of the part you acted in the revolutionary army, you will undoubtedly think it a compliment, if I should remind you of your amiable and honest companions; nor will you, I trust, take it amiss, if I presume that you were led to associate together, from a congeniality in principles, and a resemblance in your manners, pursuits, and adventures.

Degrading as this acknowledgement is, however, NOAH is responsible for it, to his countrymen alone. It is what I have little to do with; or, at least, I have much less to do with it than with the remaining part of the infamous paragraph.

"But,"

"But," (says he, heightening the tone of his complaint): "But, now that we are an independent "nation, that they should presume to vomit upon

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our coasts, the desperadoes of St. Domingo, is an "insult and an outrage, which demand prompt "reparation."-The French people, lately arrived from St. Domingo, are people of the first respectability, both in point of character and fortune. They are no rebels; they faithfully adhered to their king, while their king reigned, and sooner than submit to the rule of his murderers, they abandoned their country for ever.-Far were they from being forced here by the British: they had their choice to go to any part of the British dominions, or to those of any neutral power. They chose the United States, chiefly because many of them had already sent a considerable part of their fortunes here before them. And these are the men,' whom the vile WEBSTER compares to "condemned "convicts," and whom he complains Great-Britain has vomited on our coasts!" Insolent wretch ! there is not a white man, nor hardly a black man, amongst them, who would not be degraded by comparison with him.-If some of these gentlemen should happen to go to New-York, the pedant's sallow hide may yet pay for his presumption.

After abusing these people in so outrageous a manner, the canting caitiff casts on them an eye of pity; but, this is done for the express purpose of introducing abuse on Great Britain, still more outrageous. He says it is inhuman and savage in "her, thus to abandon them to their fate."-I have before observed, that they had their choice with respect to the place where they would go to. passage was paid by the British Government, and an armed vessel sent to defend them against the cut-throat republicans; and, besides this, if they had not been received in the United States, the

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British Minister stood ready to hire other vessels, and send them to any part of His Majesty's dominions that they chose to go to. Was this abandoning them? I fancy NOAH would like very well to be abandoned in the same manner, with the fortune of one of the abandoned persons in his pocket.

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But, we perceive, that all this is nothing more than an introduction to an attack on the general character of the British nation, which, he says, constantly abandoned her friends in this country, during the last war, and he has the impudence to call her "a faithless and corrupted nation," and to ask, if" any man can recollect an instance of her fulfilling her proffered faith?"-The rascal deserves to have a red-hot wire run through his tongue for this. As to his impudent question, I would reply to it by another, and that is: "can any man recol"lect an instance wherein Great Britain failed to fulfil her promises to the very fullest extent ?". With respect to her conduct towards the American Loyalists, that is a subject, which I thought an American Whig never would dare to touch upon. Her good faith, her generosity to those people ought, of itself, to render her the admiration of the world. She gained nothing by them; she was totally disappointed; she lost a considerable portion of her dominions, and involved herself in a debt of fearful amount. All the world looked upon her as ruined by the unfortunate contest; yet she scorned to let those suffer, who had remained faithful to her. They were paid for their losses to the last farthing, and, upon an average, they are, at this day, better off than they would have been, had they been Whigs in place of Tories. I here might (and the base attack on my country would fully justify me) compare the treatment the loyalists received from their King; I might compare the case of men, who were compensated for their losses to

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