"According to the laudable custom of these "virtuous" and decent republicans, every principle of honour and honesty has, in this contest, been totally laid aside. Mutual hatred, mutual calumny and reproach, have distinguished the canvass. Private vices and foibles have been exposed and exaggerated; private conversations have been repeated and published; nor has this remorseless rancour spared even private letters, written in the hours of confidence and friendship! In short, the contending ambition of two insignificant individuals has convulsed the whole country; it has, to borrow a phrase from Rush (the famous American Sangrado),

shaken the gall-bladder" of the community, and ejected from its lungs a vomit a thousand times blacker than that of the Yellow Fever. In the words of our Prospectus," a country, once the "seat of peace and good neighbourhood, is torn "to pieces by faction: plunged, by intriguing demagogues, into never-ceasing hatred and "strife; expiating the crime of rebellion against "monarchy by enduring the tormenting, the degrading curse of republicanism." We have too high an opinion of the loyalty and good sense of Britons to suppose, that they stand in need of such an example as this to deter them from listening to those projects, of which the Morning Chronicle and other prints of the same stamp, are continually urging the adoption."

"Stick to the Crown, though you should find it hanging on a bush," was the precept of an old Loyalist to his children, at a time when loyalty was at a very low ebb in this island. The old man was right. He had a correct notion of the nature of Republican Government; and that our readers may have a notion of it equally correct, we shall lay before them a list of" a few" (such are the words of our

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authority) of the blessings of the Republican Government of America. The following extract is taken from an address to the people of Newcastle country, in the State of Delaware; which address was signed by JAMES TILTON, JOHN VAUGHAN, and JAMES WILSON, and was published in a paper, called the Wilmington Mirror, on the 12th of September, 1800.-We make no doubt that, notwithstanding this explicit reference to our authority; notwithstanding we only repeat the words of Americans; we make no doubt, that, notwithstanding this superabundant precaution, we shall be charged. with illnature, harshness, virulence, and scurrility, Be it so we deny the charge, and heartily despise the lukewarm candid cowards, by whom it is preferred. This species of animals (for we cannot. with propriety call them men) are willing, gentle souls! to make every allowance for the " severity" (that's the term) of the partisans of Republican Government; they not only submit to the chastisement, but kiss the rod of republicanism. They do well. They merit all they receive; but we are not prepared to participate in their humiliation, and while we find only ten persons to join us, we shall continue to retaliate. One correspondent, who. says he is our well-wisher, is afraid we shall " pro"duce a war between this country and America,

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by publishing extracts from the American papers Superlative cowardice! We want no such "wellwishers." We trust that such remonstrances never come from British pens; could we suppose the contrary, we should be ready to forswear our coun-. try. Thus much by way of preface,

"Among the more prominent acts of the present ❝ administration, we may enumerate our connexions, by expensive agencies, &c, with foreign

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"Undefined hostilities with the French Republic. "We are paying an enormous tribute to the petty tyrant of Algiers.

"We have an alien, and still have a sedition. "law; by which many citizens have been disfran- ́· "chised; and native Americans consigned to loathsome dungeons for exercising the constitutional privilege of public inquiry.

"We are struggling under a direct tax, with heavy imposts:-raising money on loan at 8 per "cent; and our expenditures are increasing, while our national debt is accumulating.

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"We have supported an army in time of peace, "while our militia is neglected. The latter,' "said our departed Washington, is the natural "defence of a country.'

"We have an expensive, an ineffectual navy, "to support the interests of foreign merchants at "the sacrifice of naval, agricultural, and mechani"cal interests.

"We have a variety of stock-jobbing acts which have given birth to a system of speculation, "fraud, and bankruptcy.

"We have witnessed the fatal effects of a presi"dential patronage.

"We have seen the balance of power between "the executive and judiciary departments destroyed -our legislators have become jurors and judges,

as well as law makers. One of our district judges "has traversed the country in search of culprits, "has himself arraigned, ordered the jury to indict, " and has previously pronounced condemnation.”

"To this last subject of complaint, we beg leave to request the particular attention of our readers; and, if the complaint be well-founded, we beg them to compare the conduct of republican legislators and judges, with that of the legislators and judges

judges of England. But, say they, is the complaint well founded? This we cannot swear for: but, as we stated before, it comes forth under the signature of three men, one of whom we know to be a man of great property, and of high repu

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"Let it never be forgotten, that the opinions and the systems, which have shaken Europe to its very centre, had their rise in America. It is well enough for a man who wants to make money by a book, to attribute the troubles of the world to the conspiracy of a handful of shoeless German philosophers, such a man may trace Jacobinism up to Cain, and even to Adam, if he will; but for disinterested men to ascribe the French Revolution to the fooleries of Free-Masons, and the lack of Jesuits, is a most incredible abandonment of common sense. Not only the principles, but the mode of proceeding also, were copied from the Americans. Declarations of Rights, Committees of Safety, Committees of Secrecy, Requisitions, Confiscations, Assignats, Mandats, &c. &c. were they not all borrowed from America?

"Let it be remembered too, that it is the example of successful rebellion in America, that has ever since fed the flames of discontent in these kingdoms. In Ireland, more particularly, the spi-. rit of resistance to lawful Government is to be at

tributed to this cause. Let any one turn to the publications in the papers called The Press and the Northern Star, and to the famous letter of Mr. Grattan, and deny, if he can, that this observation is just. Nay, who has been so superficial an observer of the productions of the British press, as not to know what use has been made of the same example here also? To say nothing of the pamphlets of PAINE, the mischievous parts of which were drawn from the same source, let any one look into

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the New Annual Register, the Monthly and Critical Reviews, the Monthly Magazine, a great number of books and pamphlets, and no small portion of the newspapers, and then say if the example of America has not been the principal fountain of that poisonous stream of republicanism, which has watered but too great a part of this island. When the people of these kingdoms are told that "the best of governments," and "the most righteous of rulers," have arisen out of a rebellion, and a rebellion too against George the Third, what is the natural, what the inevitable conclusion? And, is it not, then, the duty of every Englishman, who has it in his power, to remove such captivating, such dangerous delusion? And are we to be told that we are illnatured and virulent, because we endeavour to discharge this duty? We may, but we are resolved to proceed, and, if God grants us life and health, there shall not be a village in England, unpossessed of some proofs of "the blessings of Republican Government." This is a long-concerted and, favourite project of ours, and we can assure our readers, that it is not a trifling difficulty that shall prevent its execution."

"We have received papers and letters from Philadelphia down to the 26th of October. The election of a President had been postponed till the 15th of November. The little despot, M'KEAN, who rules the good people, and the fruitful state of Pennsylvania, had issued a proclamation for assem bling the Legislature in order to their passing of a law for regulating the mode of voting for presidential electors. It was thought that the two houses would disagree, and would rise without passing this. law; but it was also thought, that M'KEAN, in order to throw fifteen electors into the scale of Mr. – JEFFERSON, would, on his own authority, order

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