ties. burdens we may be called upon to endure, tion. The legion of honour established by Bonaparte, is recognized in all their military digniof the whole business) is retained in the highest And above all, Talleyrand (the director office of the government. Will any man say, that the people of France have not succeeded in their original controversy ?" or a repose from those alarms we may be destined to experience. The time at which they declared war, circumstances which attended its declaration, and have accompanied its progress, united with the profligacy and improvidence with which it has been conducted, combine to prove the incompetency of our rulers, and to enforce the necessity of their speedy removal. What their original controversy precisely was, and what the motives which actuated the authors of the revolution, I shall not trouble myself to inquire; we should probably never agree on our conjectures; for it could amount to no more, at least; but that what they have obtained is neither more nor less in substance, than the English constitution, is not to be denied-a limited monarchy-the best government, I have no doubt, that the people of France can ever be brought under. That those who have clamoured till they became hoarse, against the British government as the worst in existence, should so suddenly turn The people possess a redeeming power; they only can rescue the country from impending ruin. Let them, therefore, no longer confide in men who abuse and deceive them-let them forget the petty distinction of party, and, with one voice, pronounce the irrevocable sentence, which shall remand to the shades of privacy, a corrupt administration, freighted with the execrations of a betrayed and indignant people. Let them appoint men in their stead, who can accomplish a spee-about and impliedly admit it to be the best, dy and honourable peace by negotiation or the sword. FROM THE EVENING POST. because it was the " original object" of the French revolution, as they are now pleased to assert, is not so much to be wondered at, CURSORY REMARKS.-Certain editors have but that the obtaining it should now be ascriaffected to make a distinction between British bed to Bonaparte, is, I confess, a stretch of and American federalists; whether they are stupid effrontery for which I was not prepared sincere in their distinction, I neither know By the same process of reasoning, American nor care; for myself, I consider all such pre-independence ought to be ascribed to Burtences mere springes to catch woodcocks," goyne and Cornwallis, and these two generals but that there actually exist a set of men consequently to become the objects of our among the democratic party, who are, at least, gratitude and admiration. as much attached to the French emperor as That the French constitution, as now settled to the American president, I have no doubt.is in substance only the English constitution, In this class of people I have always consi- in all its great features, is certain and obvious. dered the principal democratic editors, and especially him who conducts the paper called the Boston Chronicle. In the last number of this paper, now lying before me, I find an article, entitled "Summary remarks on the great events in France." The object of the writer is to reconcile himself, and readers of the same description of himself, to the present state of affairs in France, and to preserve still their respect and attachment to Bonaparte. "Bonaparte (says he) has effected the purposes of the [French] revolution. He has brought the monarchy to that state of responsibility at first demanded. The king now restored is obliged to acknowledge a right, which the king slain had denied. Leaving out of view the fate of the individuals who accomplished this great object, we must allow, that the French nation has obtained the original ground of controversy. They have not only succeeded in their first views, but they retain in office a large proportion of the most prominent characters who carried on the revoln The executive power in each, is vested in a hereditary monarch: who possesses the same prerogative in both, of arresting a bill in its passage, by his veto, or negative. A power, however, though possessed in England, is never exercised. The legislative power is vested, equally, in both countries, in two houses of parliament; each having a negative on the other; and the lower possessing exclusively the right of originating money bills. The lower house is chosen by the people in the one country for seven, in the other, for five years; the upper house consists of a hereditary nobility. The judiciary is appointed in each for life and rendered independent of either of the other branches. The trial by jury in France is confined to criminal cases, but in England extends to civil as well as criminal; as to the policy of which extensiou, however, many sound lawyers have expressed serious doubts. ODE TO THE SPIRIT OF WASHINGTON. Such are the great outlines of both the En-Sung at the anniversary of the Washington Be glish and French constitutions. The American also possesses the same three grand divisions of power, forming what is commonly called the balance of power; but with additions, revisions, improvements, and corections. For instance; our legislative branch equally consists of two houses; both, however, elected by the people; the lower for two, instead of five or seven, and the upper for six years. Our judiciary is also appointed for life, and was supposed to be independent of the other two branches of government: as doubtless was intended by the constitution it should be; but Thomas Jefferson, by a sort of chevizance, discovered a method of accomplishing its destruction, at the pleasure of the other two branches, by removing the office from the man, who, thereupon, ceasing to have any duties to perform, could no more, as was by the said Thomas contended, be an officer, than a man could be tenant after the tenement was swallowed up by an earthquake. Whether this is an improvement in the method of securing the judiciary in the tenure of his office or freehold, I must leave to men more learned in the laws than I am, to determine. Lastly, the executive power, which, in France and England, as we have seen, is vested in a king for life and his heirs after him, is here, vested in a president of Virginia for four years at a time, when for form's sake another election is held, vesting it in him for four years more, with remainder over to the next president being an inhabitant and resident of the same state of Virginia, in fee, to him and his successors forever, according as may be agreed on at a caucus held at the city of Washington once in four years. How far also this method of vesting the executive power in a Virginia president, is preferable to the method of disposing of the same power in France and England, I likewise leave to others more knowing in such matters than myself. All I shall say is, that I do not believe the Emperor Alexander or any of the allied powers, whatever some people may think and say, will ever seriously go to war with Great Britain because she is not disposed to conform her government exactly to our And thus end my speculations for this own. time. nevolent Society, in Boston, on the 30th ult. TUNE-" Ye mariners of England." While the storms of faction blow, Oh! bless this filial band that wears For here thy sacred mem'ry lives, CHORUS. Though the storms of faction blow, CHORUS. No invading war we wage, But hail, sweet PEACE! thy bless'd return HYMN. TUNE-" Old Hundred." Almighty power! we own thy grace, VOL. II. NEW-YORK, SATURDAY, JUNE 18, 1814. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY, NO. 34 CEDAR-STREET; At FIVE DOLLARS per annum; payable by city subscribers, at the end of six months from the publication of the first number, [October 25, 1813,] and by others, IN ADVANCE. NO. 5. had abandoned the family of nations, the cause of human nature itself, and with the shade of our banners, endeavoured to intercept the last beam of hope that cheered the champions of liberty, the gal lant heroes of universal Christendom. And now, we stand alone, the only mourners at the grave of a tyrant's power. The All the numbers may be had, from the voices of all the powers of Europe are commencement. poured in one joyful, swelling peal of gratitude and praise to the giver of all OUR PRESENT PROSPECTS.-The storms good, for this great deliverance. It rises of war have at length ceased in Europe. from the palace and the cottage with Where the loud din of arms had been equal fervour; in Spain and in Russia, in heard for more than twenty years; where Portugal and Germany. In Holland, in men, had warred with such long and deadly | Switzerland, in Italy, in Prussia, it has atrife that they seemed almost "by na- raised man from the dust, and made him ture foes," the silence of peace, and all the free. Even in France, in France be cordialities of kindness and good will pre-yond all other countries, is the joy sincere vail. The ambition of one no longer gives and universal. Man feels himself restored; the impulse to the conduct of nations. the wounds of humanity are healed; liberty The interest of all the whole family of and justice are established! Christendom nations, is now the noble, the only excite is rescued from tyranny and war, and ment to exertion. To do good, the utmost blood and desolation. We have seen the possible good, is the purpose of the chival- hand of the God who is powerful to save! ric sovereigns who have freed the world But of all the nations of the earth, in the from bondage. It is the fashion, the ruling United States alone are heard the groans passion of the age in which we live. Li-of disappointment, the murmurings of berty has been restored to Europe; the blasphemous discontent. In the United tears of humanity and the blood of inno-States! among a people professing devocence have ceased to flow; the smile, the tion to liberty, to justice, to morality, to happiness, and the certainty of repose, religion, in the United States alone, is have become universal; that moment there expressed or felt a deep sorrow that which witnessed the overthrow of Napo- the world has been redeemed. And by leon Bonaparte, witnessed the restoration none is this sorrow more deeply felt, than of man to dignity and happiness! Earth by those whom it delighteth the people to rejoiced, and the eternal purposes of Hea-honour! They who have almost ruined ven were fulfilled, when the strength of their own country, mourn, and weep, and that wretched, dreadful being, whose cause gnash their teeth in agony, because the the United States had espoused, was wi-human race have been restored to all the: thered by the power of the Almighty! means of temporal felicity. And why And now, what is our condition? we have do they mourn? because all their pronot a friend, nor an ally on earth. We fjects are defeated; all their high raised hopes are disappointed: else, why should the regular course of justice, he, restored they weep? People of the United States! to his understanding, will now be able to Will you not be convinced now? When exclaim, this I have suffered, that the proyou behold the tortures of the wretches, jects of a detested tyrant might be aided. because the power of France is circum- When the merchant sees his ships rotting seribed and balanced, will you ask for at the wharf, and his stores empty, he too more proof that they were French while will be able to tell how much has been France was a despotism? When you be-sacrificed in aid of the relentless ambition hold them writhing in affliction because of the humbled tyrant. When yearly, for Bonaparte has ceased to scourge mankind, ever, the taxgatherer shall present himself will you ask for proof, that he and at every door in these United States, the they were alike, that his plans and their whole people shall be reminded that their plans, his hopes and their hopes, were the estates have been pledged to defray the same? When here, in our very streets, expences of a baffled and disgraced atwhere they once rejoiced at the triumphs tempt to rivet the fetters of bondage upon of Napoleon, we behold even Frenchmen the nations of Europe, to" close the gates exulting at the restoration of peace, hap- of mercy on mankind!" The day of retripiness, and the Bourbons, while Madiso-bution is at hand; the cup of iniquity has nianism mutters the curses of disappoint-been filled, filled with poison, and to overment, why will you ask for more proof? flowing. We have ourselves sustained Surely there has prevailed over our coun- the arm, which raised it to our lips, but try not merely a French influence; but a the hand of the Almighty hath dashed it Bonapartean, a despotic influence, encoura- from us, for ever. ged and supported by the hope and the as- Had this unfortunate war never been surance, that with his aid, his followers declared, or had it ceased when the orders might become as absolute here as he in in council were revoked, how different, France. Mark their sympathies with the how delightful would have been our prosblasphemous boaster, the shallow fool, the pects, how happy our condition! And we heart stricken coward, vain and oppressive can all see now, how wise were the counin prosperity, base and abject in adversity! sels of those sages and patriots, who wishMark every Madisonian spouter, every ed and strove so ardently for the restora~~ hireling journal, and you will see how tion of peace. They were called friends anxious they are to preserve, now that of Great Britain, because they could perhis power is extinct, the little they can of ceive neither the necessity nor benefit of his perishing fame: and then ask, if you a war; because they knew that our exercan, for stronger proof of their souls' union tions could in no degree control the result with the pestilence of these dreadful days. of the European struggle; because they Rejoice, that we have escaped from the wished our country to increase in populafriends of Napoleon, from the self con- tion, and wealth and strength, while other fessed, convicted, sobbing friends of the nations were exhausting their power. fallen tyrant. We know them now! Our Alas! the soundest patriotism, the deepest knowledge is dearly purchased; but let wisdom, were scouted as crimes, and the us console ourselves that it is worth the words of truth and soberness turned into price. When the southern planter looks moral treason. They were hooted as at his cotton, his rice, his tobacco, his enemies of their country, whose counsels wheat, dead on his hands, himself in- would have saved us from those dreadful volved in embarrassments, his estate pro-evils, from which there seems now hardly tected only by laws which have stopped a possibility of escape. The lying spirit which deluded the king of Israel to his after the soundest arguments have been ruin, was not more successful, than those exhausted in vain. execrable calumnies which have been believed, and those pernicious counsels which have been followed, by the infatuated people of these United States! Had the fall of Bonaparte found us at peace, it would also have found us rich, happy, and powerful; and our condition free from the danger of change. Much, and unnecessarily and wickedly as this administration has persisted in continuing the war, while a hope of Bonaparte's resuscitation remained, I have no doubt they now wish for peace. Some believe not, I know. But mad, as I think Mr. Madison, I cannot doubt that he now pants for peace. How can it be otherBut it has found us at war, poor, dis-wise? Without men, without money, withcontented and weak: the only hope of out credit, without revenue, and without change resting upon the moderation, the Napoleon, can he be so mad, as yet to justice, the magnanimity of our enemies, wish war? With the prospect of half the and the regard and affection which may British navy on our coasts, Wellington's be entertained for us, by the friends of our army in our country, the savages returnenemies; by the enemies of the tyrant ing to the charge, the slaves in a state of whom they have destroyed, and whose insurrection, can he be so bent on our fall we mourn. It has found our country utter, irretrievable ruin, as yet to wish a distracted with dissentions; our people continuance of the war. If he is, it would loaded with taxes; our possessions mort-be difficult to decide whether he has a gaged for debts which can never be paid; greater title to a place in a lunatic hosand our national credit resting upon the pital or a state's prison. I know that the solvency and punctuality of Jacob Bar-dreadful little grey man, the cause of all ker! It has found our sea coast defence- we have suffered and are to suffer, is less; our territorial frontiers ravaged; our much in the situation of poor Paulo Pararmies destroyed by sickness, climate and ganti, defeat; our military character disgraced and despised; it has found us in every respect, save our once detested but gallant navy, every thing we ought not to be, nothing that we ought to be! Without Will he be able to obtain a peace? If friends abroad, without strength, without he be, how overwhelming will be the con. wisdom, without hope, at home. And what viction, that we ought never to have had is worst of all, it has found us worshipping a war! If he should not, what a train of the maniacs who have reduced us to this horrible calamities has this wretched being degradation and suffering, and cursing the prepared for his country! wisdom which would have enabled us to If an honorable peace cannot be obtain avoid them. It has even found us re-ed; if peace and submission and disgrace sentful against those who hoped by repre- are not to be separated; if we must have senting the truth, to persuade the people all or none, one advantage at least will to abandon a course so assuredly destruc-follow: the body of the nation will be entive. abled to see, that the same band of patriots "Sad state of matters, when we dare Nor ask for peace, nor offer war." It is impossiBut peace he wishes now. ble it should be otherwise. I do fear that such a people have to who deplored the declaration of an unsuffer much and long before they will be necessary, and detested the continuance induced to abandon the paths of error and of a wicked war, will be as firm in supdelusion. Experienee may convince them, porting by toil and blood, their auntry's |