trary, I hope it will tend to encourage you to proceed, and pursue your project with such earnestness, that nothing but the bayonet will be found capable of stopping your career. It was the fashion some years ago, and, with WEBSTER and some others, it is so still, to decry the mode of election in Great-Britain and Ireland: but, let these half-fool, half-rogue rascals produce me, if they can, from amongst the members of all the British Parliaments, which have been called for a hundred years past, a list to equal the following : Lyon, 2 Blounts, Giles, and Baltimore Smith. I could mention some more, who do great honour to the system of universal suffrage; but these names, together with the pretty little anecdotes relative to each, which will at once present themselves to the recollection of the reader, will, I trust, be looked upon as sufficient for the present. Mason the Senator, and Callender the Runaway. -My last paper contained an account of a democratic member of the House of Representatives : In this, I am about to give some anecdotes repecting a SENATOR. MASON the SENATOR is the same man, who, contrary to his duty and his oath, made a premature disclosure of the contents of the British Treaty, with the evident intention of exciting a clamour against it, in order to prevent its final ratification. He has constantly, since that time, as well as before, been of the French faction, and has uniformly P 4 opposed opposed every measure calculated to protect the country against the infamous designs of the savage despots of Paris. CALLENDER, on his arrival in America, boasted that he had escaped the gallows in Scotland, and that his comrades were then in Newgate awaiting their final doom. The wretch, with the encouragement of JEFFERSON and others, throve for a little while; but his drunkenness, his rascality in every way, led him from den to den, and from misery to misery, till he, at last, took shelter under the disgraceful roof of the abandoned hireling editor of the AURORA: while in his employment, he buried a poor, abused, broken-hearted wife, who left behind her a family of ragged, half-starved children, to be sent to the poor house. "Birds of a feather flock together," and Callender and MASON Contracted such a friendship for each other, that they were inseparable while the Senator was in the city. The Senator went home, but still hankering after his companion, he sent an invitation for him to come and pass the summer season at his house in Virginia. He forgot, however, to send a horse, or any thing else, for the poor rascal to ride upon; he was, therefore, like a true vagabond, obliged to tramp it. The wretch has a most thief-like look; he is ragged, dirty, has a downcast with his eyes, leans his head towards one side, as if his neck had a stretch, and goes along working his shoulders up and down with evident signs of anger against the fleas and lice. Notwithstanding his exterior, his munificent friend received him with all the affection of a brother; but being, soon after his arrival, found drunk in the neighbouring distillery, and the people judging him from his villainous look, suspected him to be a felon, who had made his escape from the wheel wheelbarrow, on the Baltimore roads, and actually took him up on that suspicion, and conducted him before a magistrate, where the scape-gallows declared his name, said he was a printer at Philadelphia (which was a lie), that he came into Virginia in consequence of an invitation from Stevens Thomson Mason, one of the Virginia Senators in Congress, and that he then resided at the Senator's house, where his papers were lodged. In consequence of this declaration, CALLENDER was allowed till five o'clock to produce his testimonials; and, at that hour, MASON appeared in his behalf, produced a certificate of his naturalization, and said he was a man of a good character !!! An account of this affair was published in the Columbian Mirror, an excellent paper published at Alexandria; but this MASON did not like: shame, at last, came to his aid, but it came too late; for it urged him to deny the account, and thereby only made it more generally known. He disclaimed his poor friend, positively insisted that he never appeared in his behalf; and, by this indiscreet step, gave his neighbours an opportunity of proclaiming him for an atrocious LIAR, in addition to his other qualifications, as will be seen by the following pieces from the Alexandria paper. 'Mr. GIRD, As some altercation has taken place in the • Mirror last week between General Mason and myself, as the author of a piece signed A. and as I wish the whole to be brought under a single 'view, I must request you to republish that piece, together with General Mason's reply; and the 'enclosed certificates from gentlemen whose cha'racter will not suffer by a comparison with his. From which it appears that my communication was strictly true, that Mr. Mason's assertions were 6 • utterly 'utterly false; and the public will decide who best merits the epithet of infamous scoundrel! While • General Mason ceases to praise, my character will not suffer; nor will my feelings be hurt by any expressions which come from him. If the Brigadier can't brook the indignity of being publicly proved a liar, he shall receive full satisfaction on application to 6 No. I. We, the subscribers, magistrates for the county of Loudoun, being called on by one ' of the constables for the said county, to examine a person by him apprehended, on suspicion of having eloped from the wheelbarrow, on the Baltimore roads, who, on his examination, denied being a runaway-said his name was James T. Callender, lately from Philadelphia, printer of a 'paper published in that city; that he came from thence into this state (Virginia) at the particular request of General Mason, at whose house he then resided; that his papers were at General 'Mason's, and that he (General Mason) would give any satisfaction that might be required respecting his character. 6 6 Loudoun sset. PAT'K CAVAN. JOSEPH SMITH.' The above certificate was sworn to, this 13th day of August, 1798, before 'SAMUEL MURRAY.' No. II. We, the subscribers, being present when a person apprehended on suspicion of being a runaway from the wheelbarrow, on the Balti more more roads, was examined before the magistrates, who said his name was James T. Callender, lately from Philadelphia, and Printer. That he came into the state of (Virginia) at the particular request of General S. T. Mason, at whose house he then resided. JOHN JACOBS, JOHN M'CORMUCK, 'JACOB MOORE, Time being allowed Callender to procure his papers, at five o'clock (the time appointed for him to appear before the magistrates), Gen. S. T. Mason appeared in his behalf: produced a certificate of his naturalization, and said he was a man of good character. • Mr. GIRD, PATRICK CAVAN.' Having seen, in your paper of September 1, 1798, an elaborate production of Stevens Thomson Mason, the FIGHTING and LYING brigadier'general of Loudoun county, marked with that species of language termed by dictionarians true Billingsgate, I am induced to trouble you also. As the magnanimous general has commenced in that style, it may not be amiss to pursue it, though unfortunately I have no Callender to refresh my < memory. He (General Mason), in his vindication, has established, instead of invalidating, every one of the charges brought against him as to his harbouring and making a bosom friend of the infa |