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Thos. & Sam. IloIVmgsworth,
HAVE FOR SALE,
\00 hhds. Muscr>eado Sugar,
200
Charles vVi-rgman
Offers for salt,
Gold Watches,
JLondot. Jewellery,'
Tin Plates in boxes.
Boll Iron,
F.mnlv Bottles in hampers,
Venetian Red,
Spanish Brown,
x. ofi Porter,
Hollow Glass Ware in casts, and
A few tons Log'wood and Fustic.
March 27. eo4t
Fresh Teas.
. y U S T R E C E I V E D,
50 clients Young1 Hyson, superior quality,
j 300 boxes Hyson Skin, lo i-'i each,
i "0 chests very fine Souchong Teas,
15 ditto Imperial,
Ail t" - e imported in March, 1807.
For Sale by
JACOB & WM. NOKRIS,
No. 64, Market-street.
March 27" eol2t
[TANCIN'G.
Mr. DUPOB.T, respectfully iriforrris his
Friends and patrons, and the public in general,
tha' ' '' proposes to resume his tutitioris rn
his former terms ; and that for the further ac-
O'orn ¦ ' ition of his Scholars, he will in-
tlvem either by the. month or quarter;
further particulars made kno n at iVIr Carr's
Music Store. March 27. eo3t
Nicholi-
las S. St D. Jones,
No. 12, Bowly's wbari
Jlave received by the sh-'- ttercttUs, from Liver-
pool,
4 tons first quality White Lead, :n Oil,
2 ditto Red Lead, dry.
And will receive per the Fame, daily expected,
3 tons Patent Shot, assorted from No. 1
to 8.
4 do. White Lead,
2 do. Red Lead.
ON' HAND,
3 bales Superfine Cloths and Cassimeres,
1 do. Flushing's,
5 do. first quality Sail Cloth.
ALSO,
Brown and Loaf Sugars,
An1i';'"'> and Jamaica Spirits,
N. E. Rum,
Li ii mi itid Madeira Wines, old and fit for
immediate use,
Patent Shot,
B' st Flotant Indigo,
Mould and Dipt Candles,
Imperial, Hyson, Young Hyson, Hyson
Skin, and Souchong TEAS,
With a general assortment of GROCE-
RIES, which will be sold on moderate terms.
ALSO,
oOO Demijohns.
March :i7. eoPt
Tea Dollars Reward,
For apprehending and securing in any j;dl
in the- United Stales, a certain person who
calls himaelf by the name of Win. Graves, of
Albermarle county, state of Virginia ; who
i<-. a thief, and ranaway from his creditors.
He Is about twenty-three, or four years of
. doivn
look, his upper teeth arelie I Haa on when
he ratiaway, a half worn < r; ¦;> oolored surtout,
orang I corded pantaloons, and rode
a so. , v ith lurht main and tail, and
one of her hind feet white, and blazed, face,
about 1.') and an half hands high, about six
or seven years old. If brought lo this place,
twenty dollars reward will be paid by
ANDREW M11 tVia pnW*.n. Airing itlP CTJIW?
for sale shall pay the expence of such re-in-
spection.
II. And be it enacted and ordained, That
it shall be the duty of said guagers, When
required to guage all wine, rum, molasses,
and other liquid merchandize (malt liquor
excepted) imported, brought or put into any
butt, tun, pipe, hogshead, barrel, or other
cask in the said city, and to mark and set
down the true number of gallons, according
to the English standard and excise of wine
measure, which each cask or vessel will
truly contain, with his own mark, all which
casks with the true marks and numbers;
with the owner or owners names, si .11 be
to which recourse may be had as oiten as
entered into a book to be kept for that/purpose,
occasion may require ; and if any cask or
vessel guaj;ed and maiked by the guager
aforesaid, shall be found lacking or exceeci-
:"~ one or more gallons in every quarter
cask, or two or more gallons in casks of a
larger size of the quantity so numbered and
marked on the casks or vessels as aforesaid,
the said guager shall forfeit and pay two dol-
lars for each and every gallon so lacking or
exceeding the number or mark so set down
t>n each cask.
III. And be it enacted andardained, That
the said guagers shall carefully examine and
inspect all casks containing liquors, distill-
ed from domestic materials which may be
brought to the city of Baltimore for sale,
and when in tire judgment of the guagers
any cask shall be merchantable, agreeably
to the provisions of this ordinance, he shall
mark the same with the letter B, with the
marking iron on the bilge near the bung of
such cask ; and when the said inspector
shall judge any cask to be defective in the
make thereof, he is hereby authorised and
directed to condemn every such cask as un-
merchantable, and shall mark the same with
a marking iron on the bilge near the bung
thereof with a broad arrow, and all casks
containing any liquors aforesaid, shall be
made of well seasoned white oak, free from
gap, round at the bilge and heads, the staves
thereof shall not be less than half an inch in
thickness at the thinnest part thereof, and
not more than three quaters of an inch at
the thickest part thereof, and shall be made
tight, and secured with twelve good and
sufficient hoops on all barrels, and sixteen
good and sufficient hoops on all double bar-
rels and hogsheads.
IV. And be it enacted and ordained, That
it shall be the duty of the said Guagers to
examine and inspect the quality of all coun-
try distilled liqnors, brought to the said
city for sale, and ascertain in the most ac-
curate manner the strength and quality
thereof, under such rules and regulations as
the .mSyor may direct, and to mark with
marking irons, the prpof which in their
judgment it may be found to bear, on the
head of the cask containing the tame, from
first proof upwards, except such liquor as
shall not come up to first proof, which shall
be marked with a round O, and with the
number of degrees under said proof.
V. And be it miactcd and ordained, That
if any person or persons shall alter any
mark or number, marked and set down by
either cf tht Guagers aforesaid? thereby to
deceive" and defraud fhe purchaser of run'.
wine, molasses, or other liquid merchan •¦,.'¦¦
so guaged, inspected, marked and numbered
as aforesaid, or sliail put any false mark or
number on any cask or casks of rum, wine,
molasses or other liquid merchandize, every
such person or persons shall forfeit and pay
twenty dollars for every such offence. And
of all fines and forfeitures incurred under
this ordinance, the one-half shall be applied
to the use of the informer.
BALTZER SCH/EFFER,
President cf the first branch of the city
Council.
JAMES CALHOUN,
President of the second branch of the
City Council.
Approved, March 36, 1S07,
(L. S. C.) THOBOWGOOD SMITH,
Mayor, of the City of Baltimore.
Fo* the FEDERAL GAZETTE."
THE TABLET.—No. I.
The United States is called a young
country, and its inhabitants a new people.
Such, however, is net the case. This
country, strictly speaking, is as old as Egypt,
and its inhabitants neither more nor less
(with the exception of Indians and Africans)
than a motley collection of Europeans and
the descendants of Europeans.
Such is the simple and unadorned fact :
and when the vast extent of territory yet to
be settled is taken into the account, several
centuriesmust, roll away, before the country
can be so filled with inhabitants as to give
to it a people, one and homogeneous.
Another whim has been broached,, and
is fondly cherished. Expressed in plain
and intelligible terms, it amounts to this :
" An European, settling in the United
States, becomes thereby a belter man, and
c born within the United States, (in-
eluding Loui-iana,) a better race, than if he
had continued in his native soil, and they
had been born and remained therewith him.
This is a nattering hypethesis ; but how
is it supported ? Is there any thing in the
soil or climate of the United States, or in
their laws or institutions, capable of making
an European better, or his descendants a
better race of men ?
We confess that there are not a few
facts, whose bearing is to, establish a con-
trary hypothesis.
The inhabitants of Massachusetts, Virgi-
nia and Delaware, consist almost wholly
of descendants of Europeans, born and
educated in the country which they inhabit.
Here then, if any where in the United
States, we may expect to find the American
character, in its most improved state, and
under its most imposing form.
To a late address by the legislature of
Massachusetts, praising the wisdom of his
measures, Mr. Jefferson returned a gracious
answer. " Tbis letter or answer being
read from the chair, by the speaker of the
house of representatives—(we use the words
of the house employed on this Occasion)
It is thereupon ordered, that the same be
deposited among the archives of the house,
and printed in the paper, in which are pro-
.. . ¦ . cd -.lie laws of the commonwealth."
Let us turn our attention for a moment to
the commons of the parliament of England.
Among the answers of their king to
their addresses, approving of his measures,
in trying or critical occasions, we do
not find a single instance in which these
commons, have been guilty of such abject
flattery, a's formally to direct any one of
them to be preserved in thetr archives as a
precious relict, and copies thereof promul-
gated to the people, in like manner as their
laws.
An act, against which the blood of Eng-
lishmen would rebel has been done by the
representatives of the state of Massachusetts,
the descendants of Englishmen,
the end of tl > •'- I '"ecii'ne a re-
election, and retire fi -in the Strauws duties
of first magisti e repose of privates
life. Although wi nterested-
ncss of such conduct, a ytartety of circum-
stnnces impress us with the apprehension
that even this virtuous ejtatnple might be
hazardous at so critical a' H10ft>ent.
" Clouds of danger hang over our com-
mon country, which threaten to burst in
deep laid treason and open violence. At
such a crisis the canvassing and cabals con-
sequent on the change of a president, might,
we apprehend, be dangerous.
" We theiefoie intreat you, sir, not to
withhold your name at the next presidential
election, but, once more, permit the public
good to outw eigh personal considerations*
At the end of four years more, we hope there
will be no impediment or restraint to your
laudable ambition of setting a glorious ex-
ample for future chief magistrates.
" We will not take up your time with,
professions of regard and admiration of your
public conduct. All America, and, w e be-
lieve, all the work), are ready to approve
the ground of our confidence. But we de-
clare, that by according with our ardent
wish and expectation, which we sincerely
believe is the hope and desire of our repub-
lican fel'ow-citizens, you will add addition-
al obligations to the numerous blessings
which, under the smiles of Providence, with
grateful hearts, we are at all times ready to
acknowledge, as the result of your happy
administration."
We cannot peruse these many acts and
solicitations of the descendants of English-
men, and drive from our recollection the
account given by DioCassius and Suetonius,
of the flattery and humble intreaties employ-
ed by the Roman senate and people after
they had lost the dignity of freemen, to in-
duce Augustus to continue at the head of
affairs.
Augustus having arrived at supreme pow-
er, affected a great degree of moderation and
respect for the rights of the people, by main-
taining most of the ancient forms of the
republican constitution, and pretending to
consider his own functions as merely a tem-
porary administration for the public bene-
fit. As consul, he went through the usual
process of the periodical elections, and at
the end of the seventh year of his govern-
ment actually announced to the senate his
resignation of all authority. This feigned
annunciation was followed by a general sup-
f tr.e senate and Roman people, that
he would no' abandon the republic •which he
h,:J saved frem destruction.
Overpowered bytheir solicitations;" sinre
it must be so (said Augustus) I accept the
empire for.ten years, unless the public trar.-
quility should permit me before that time to
enjoy the retirement I passionately long
for."
Is this act characteristic of high-minded
republicans ?
It was not till the evils inseparable from
democracy h;ld .destroyed liberty in Athens,
and debased the sentiments of its once cele-
brated citizens, that they were guilty of si-
milar prostrations to their supposed bene-
factor, (i.)
The house of delegates of the state of
Virginia affords another example no less
striking, and, if possible, more'disgraceful
to the republican character. In an address
to Mr. Jefferson, the following reasoning is
substantially used, to induce him to become
a candidate for the ensuing presidency :
" We acknowledge that the republican
principle requires a rotation in the higher
departments of government, as essential to
the preservation of liberty. But a man
cannot be said to violate a principle, un-
less he intends its violation. Now it is not
your intention to violate the principle of ro-
tation. Your fixed intention we are assur-
ed is, not to serve the republic for the next
four years. This intention, therefore, is
equivalent to your having been actually out
of office during that period of time ; con-
sequently, the principle of rottition, so dear
to all true republicans, will not be affected
or impaired by your acting as president for
the ensuing four years."
It is thus the commons of the ancient
dominion, that portion of the United
States first settled by Europeans, whose
planters live In palaces, assume the post of
princes, and a;e waited upon by a train of
slaves, assert the dignity of freemen, and
rise superior to their English ancestors.
" At a meeting of certain descendants of
Englishmen, stiling themselves dejegafes of
New-Castle county, in the state of Dela-
ware, held conformably to a recommendati-
on of the grand jury of said county," Mr.
Jefferson is addressed in the following lan-
guage :
" Through
various sources we have ob-
tained information that puts it beyond a
doubt, you have declared your intention, at
(i.) Sec Plutarch's life of Demetrius,
Augustus, we are told, repeated the same
mockery five times in the course of his go-
vernment, accepting the chief magistracy,
sometimes for ten and sometimes only foe
five years.
No di.ubt it would be perceived, without
our mentioning it, that the parallel here sug-
gested is not between Augustus and Mr.
Jefferson, but between the degenerate Ro-
mans, in the days of Augustus, and citizens
of the United States, the descendants of
Europeans in the presidency of Mr. Jeffer-
son.
Is the enthusiasm of liberty banished
from our shores ? Is the spirit of indepen- .
der.ee evaporated ? Is the ardor of patrii t-
ism dead ? Is it our climate, is it our soil,
is it our republican institutions, that have
brought the descendants of Englishmen to
solicit for a ruler, like the corrupt and dege-
nerate senate of Rome ?
Where now shall we look for the advo-
cates of principles not wen ?
Where meet with respecters of the rights
of their fellow citizens ?
Where discover men satisfied with that
degree of consideration, they csn procure
by their abilities, fairly measured, against
those of an opponent ?
Where find men who labor for the public
without hope of profit ?
Where seek for men, who reject every
attempt to create personal dependence ?
If already become imitators ot the dege-
nerate Romans, in the days of Augustus ;
if already our elections, which every citizen
should approach free and unbiased, are in-
fluenced by the addresses of legislatures and
presidential letters ; if already oaths and
obligations are dead letters in our constitu-
tions ; if already all love of country is
swallowed up in a love for office ; if alrea-
dy patriotism and the heroic virtues are sup-
planted by hypocrisy, selfishness and cun-
ning ; if already the cry of liberty is heard
loudest amongst the most profligate and
degenerate—we may boast of the name, but
•we are no longer republicans.
When some neglected fabric nodi beneath
The weight if years, and taf.eri to the ttKfl
Must Heaven dispatch the messenger tjjj'i'ght
fit::fail.
i 'r viale the dead tu ivai-n i
Mount-Clear,
Johnson's Irene
From the JV~enp- York Evening Post.
It has been the custom of European
writers to decry all literary productions that
appear ori this side of the Atlantic, and to
represent America as a clime unfavorable to
the culture and expansion of genius—Some
of our authors ha\e followed their example,
and even one has joined in this illiberal ac-
cusation who may himself be designated as
an instance of its falsity.
f! In the cold shades, beneath those shift*
ing skies,
Where Fancy sicken* ar.d where Genius
dies ;
Where few and feeble are the Mose's
strains,
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