the last farthing, who had excellent lands in abundance bestowed on them, who were allowed tools to begin their labours with, and three years provisions to feed them, till their land should repay their industry; I might compare the lot of these people with that of those who fought the battles of the Congress, with that of the continental soldiers and other holders of certificates and paper money; but this, though I have ample provocation to do it myself, I shall leave to the pen of NOAH WEB

STER.

At a time when America sees herself deserted, despised, and insulted by all her quondam friends; When France is trampling upon her rights, robbing her in every quarter of the world, and when the ports of Spain and Holland are an ever open receptacle for her pillaged property and manacled seamen; and when, to all this, the conduct of Great Britain is so noble a contrast; when she is fulfilling her engagements with the most scrupulous good faith, voluntarily lending every species of aid and protection to the commerce of this country, and when she is, in short, the only power on earth, by whom these states have been, and are, treated with respect, and by whom they can be defended from the fleets of their foes; at a time like this, what must be thought of the rancorous rascal, who calls her "a faithless and corrupted nation," and who places her beneath the savages of America, and the pirates of Algiers ?-Ought he not to be looked upon as an agent of France ?-Ought he not to be detested by the people of this country? And, ought he not to be shunned as a viper by every native of the country on which he has attempted to cast such malicious and unprovoked slander ?Blasted be the Briton, who continues, after this, to give his custom, or his countenance to this defamer of our nation! Yet, there will be such. There will

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will be found rampant spaniel-like creatures, who will even crawl to the long-eared pedantic animal, and solicit another jerk from his insolent hoof.There was a time when every Briton felt for Britain as for himself, made all her quarrels his own, and knew no other friends than the friends of his country; but, that time is past; the age of indifference and degeneracy has succeeded, and we now see Britons riding in the same coach, and dipping in the same dish, with those who openly defame their parents and their country, and who pray for their

destruction.

The Editor of a little dirty paper, called the "Baltimore Intelligencer," abuses me most terribly; in the very same number, he has nearly three whole sentimental pages on the cruelty of hanging a poor fellow for only robbing and shooting his own Father! -By this shall ye know a full blooded democrat ; -he will smile at the murder of the innocent by thousands, but the death of the thief or the murderer never fails to soften his heart. Sympathy is a very powerful passion.-Such is the democratic antipathy to a gallows, that I have often observed the caitiffs, when they come near a tavern that has a gibbeted sign, slink along on the opposite side of the way, though at the same time famishing with drought.

So much for the "Baltimore Intelligencer."

I have read MR. HOPKINSON's address to the volunteers, and I think MR. HOPKINSON is a fine young man; he is a firm friend to the government and to his country, and, in spite of family connections and every other temptation to the contrary, he has constantly borne his testimony against the infernal principles of the Jacobins.-But, all this will not induce me to overlook the extreme vanity of

his

his quoting a line from his own song, nor to approve of his presumption (to give it the mildest term) in stigmatizing the whole European world as governed by corrupted systems of policy."-That part of the oration where he pledges himself, &c. &c. might have sounded well from General Washington; but I was very sorry to hear it from Mr. H.

Female Toasting." After the usual celebration. of the 4th of July, at Middletown, Connecticut, the ladies also, animated with the spirit of patriotism, and desirous to give a proof of their attachment to the cause of their country, convened in the afternoon, in the grove belonging to Capt. G. Starr, where a cold collation was provided for them, and the following truly patriotic toasts were given :

"1st. The United States-May their sons ever continue brave and free, and their daughters virtuous and fair.

"2d. Mrs. Adams-May she offer to the fair of America, a model of imitation worthy the virtues of the President of the United States.

"3d. Mrs. Washington-May we in her ever recal to mind the valour, patriotism, and magnanimity of the hero who conducted us to freedom.

"4th. Valour and Patriotism-May they ever be united, and their joint efforts protect us from the yoke of foreign domination.

"5th. The Volunteers of America-May the spirit which animates them in the cause of freedom, incite them to actions worthy of the principle which actuates them.

"6th. The Daughters of America-May their applausive smiles reward the patriotic youth who step

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forward in defence of their country, and their frowns appal the traitor or coward who dares to betray or desert it.

"A number of gentlemen having joined them, they afterwards formed themselves into a procession, conducted by the two eldest of the ladies present, and followed by the gentlemen, proceeded through the principal street, to a liberty tree erected near the church, displaying a board, representing a divided serpent, on the point of being devoured by a dragon, with this motto: "Unite or Die." The sight of this device, though in some places nearly effaced by time, recalled forcibly to every mind the glorious era of 76; when the same board was first displayed. Such examples are truly worthy of imitation; when the fair exhibit such a spirit in their country's cause, who that is not a recreant, but would blush to remain inactive."

I don't like this. It is too much in the bacchanalian style. When a woman has swallowed six glasses of good Madeira, she is fit for any thing.The meeting in the Grove too is another bacchannalian trait; and then, when they were got warm, being joined by a number of gentlemen seems to complete the affair. I remember nothing like it in any civilized country, either in ancient or modern times. CHAUCER tells us of companies of knights and damsels meeting in the woods and on the lawns, for various purposes; but never did the ladies of those gallant times preface the business by a drinking bout. I am persuaded, that neither MRS. ADAMS, nor MRS. WASHINGTON will feel themselves much honoured by the clumsy compliments of these toping dames, whose ridiculous behaviour on this occasion, will, I am sure, never meet with the approbation of any sensible man, nor of any modest and sober woman,

NOAH

NOAH WEBSTER.

"And e'en in pennance planning sins anew."

POPE.

My readers saw, some few days ago, a very striking instance of the malicious disposition of this despicable creature, in an infamous paragraph which I quoted from his paper. I have now to tell them, and I do it with great pleasure, that that paragraph produced a proper effect at New York; that is, it produced a a very considerable reduction in the number of poor Noah's subscribers. The wretch, who was deaf to the voice of truth and justice, listened to that of interest. He was alarmed at the influx of those who wished to be relieved from his trash; and the next day, he made a poor shuffling excuse. This did not, however, answer his purpose, he therefore recommenced his atrocious slander, before the penitent confession of his sins was hardly washed from his lips.

This new slander he introduces by an essay on the " savage violence of party spirit." After paying a sort of left handed compliment to the people of England, in the true French style, he proceeds as follows.

"It is said the government is wicked and tyrannical. This is in a degree, true; but a man must be an idiot to suppose a French invasion will remedy the evil. If the English should resist successfully the attempts of France, that success must be purchased with infinite blood, treasure, and public and private miseries. If France should conquer, the misery of the inhabitants would be intolerable.The island would be in part abandoned—and the

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