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iff 1 I i tie public veil. I tiimt fix utoti en piecise lime tonne Happening ui mis vent but I believe 1 tun giws you many of the signs an when all the siyis re seen. by men of discern mem, they uill verily know, that the event has conic to 'pass. When this event there villi be dispersed through this nation a host of hireling editors of newspapers, busily encaged in puffing their employers, and moulding and fashioning public sentiment by deception, to suit their views. When this event happens, this country Mill swarm, with little demagogues, whose appropriate business will be to sound the praise of their leaders and misguide public sentiment i playing at the same time the part of sycophants to their lenders ami the deceive! of the people looking for their reward and willing to be sent here nud wire worked by tin gteut pwlit ical jugglers in the way which ma) best Mih their purposes, l'l those days evtiy sentiment deemed impnrtnt by the kadcrs, will bemadea test.

an article "I political orthodoxy, and all who will tiot IKO L'li lA'E SIR JO UK M.I Wcbnksday, Aritit 13. assent ill be considered as heretics; it will not be enough tint a man Is attached to the constitution ol his country and that he has i quired a character for and good sense he must praise hi leaders his sentiments must be in perfect accordance upon all points. Then will be heard denunciations ugai.ist all who have not precisely pursued the course 'niaiked out i made for the pin pose, of whipping in the timid, un crushing the firm. When this crisis arrives, this Hall, which ought through all time to bs the great watch lower ol liberty from which the language of the pitiiot might be heard in the voice of warning; and from which the lays of polit.cul truth might he shed abroad, by open, fair and manly discussion, will on favoiite occasions be silent as death; by the use of the pievious question mid upon the ready pla of the necessity of ecsputcbing business, sion will be silenced and this Hull present to the eve a college of siicnt recor tiers. Then will the tights of all who who have independence of mind todisap prove'oflhe course of a party however much' it may mci it it.

consist of obedience to theit will. Whatever ethers may think, my judgment and feelings conspire end cujVjl den me to say that a majority may err it was corrupt majorities, if my memory serves me correctly," that by their intrigues with Philip of Macidon, paed the, way for his subjuga'ion of the dorian Republics. 1'he tiiumvir.ite of Caesar, Ponipey and Cras ais, wielded a majority of the Hoinan Senate. Cromwell had his majority in lheEnglisoPailimeiit yes, sir, tic had his entire Parliament Robespierre had his majority in the Trench National Convention. Even Nero, observed the forms ef the Roman Republic and had' his majoiity in the Senate of Home." Unexamjded dissipation.

It is an un deniable fact, that the same men who begun their political career with loud and boisterous pretensions to rigid economy, are now spending or rather wantonly wasting the people's money at the monstrous rate of one million of dollars a week at least. One million dollars aviteki What is the weight of one million dollars in silver In solid silver it would weigh Cfty six thousand eight hundicd and eighteen pounds. How many waggons would a million dot lars load with a thousand pounds weightof silver in each waggon It would load Cfty six waggons leaving over and above 1818 pounds weight ot silver How many pounds weight of silver would be a years interest of a. million of dollars, at 8 per cent I It would be four thousand live hundred and forty nine pounds weight of silver and it would load with solid silver.four waggons and an half with a thousand pound weight each leaving a surplus of 49 pounds weight. So much for our expenses per week now for a whole year.

How many solid pounds of silver would the expenses ol cur government, at the aforementioned rate, amount to in a year? They wauld amount to two millions nine Repeal of Ihc Embargo AND i Non Importation Laws. An express arrived in this city yesterday, which left Washington on Thursday bftcinoonat 5 o'clock, biinging information that the bill repotted by the committee of Foreign Relations to Repeal the Embargo and Non I in porta'ion Laws, passed the House of Repicscntativcs on Thursday by a vote of 115 to 37. A motion to strike out tlvs section repealing the nonimportation law was lost, 1 1 0 to 31. A motion to strike out the scciixii to repeal the emuargo wus hist, 120 to 22. Free.

Jw vat. Albany Register F.xtra, Ft May, Jfird 8 9 o'chek, .1 M. From tin. AiiJuhbury Columbian Pa'riot. 18.4.

FROM THE FRONTIER. At a Ijte hour last cvoiii.ig we were politely fivorttl with the peius.il of a Idler 1 1 dim a in l'lalt'Jiuigli, to hisf.icud tovn.d..utl 1'iiday mtn ing, Apiil 1, Its ejreat lenders it impossible for us give un iliing more thn a hasty su.nm.iry of its cu litems. Tho iinpir.a'it f. cls communicated arc that our army advanced icto O.lletown on the 30th. ult.

with the view of attacking the enemy at Lj Cole mill that having proceeded about two mil a half miles, it was found they had mistaken the road to Montreal fur tint to the mill; that on "heeling to legain the road they had missed, they wcic attacked by a picket of 30 tegulaisaud 10'J militia, who were sheltered in a barn. 1 hey were soon by the fuc or a piirc of light aithlcry, with the loss of one taken pris oner, and three deserted. Our loss was to killed snd wounded: among the latter was Ensign Parker through the bieast Majars Mernardand Tottcn had their horses shot from under them, The ar mv proceeded by a cross road to La Cole Mill, wlici' they ariived between three and four P. M. with the light artillery and one Vi oundr the IS's being pre vented coming up by the badness of the roads.

The 12 pjtnder was opened upon the Mill, which shclteied the cnc my, with some Utile effect they made a sally to take it, but with lo3s. Cupt M'I'herson commanded the piece, and was wounded through the nccl. and hip the Utter supposed he inorrtl APer this fall Lieut. Sheldon of the heaiey artillery, took the command of the piece, lie fought till every rim about him was either killed, wounded, or diiv'n avay, when he loaded and fired the piece himself, discharging it (ihc man being gone) with the flash of a musket, lie was soon suppoitcd by infantry. The attack continued until sf'crsun set, when no impression being made on the mill, a retreat was oidurcd to Odlciown The heavy artillery anived at Chainplain that night.

Our loss is computed 100 to 150 kil.ed wounded. No officer was killed. The w.t are Captain M'Phersur, I.ieuts. Laiabee and Green, of the artil. lerj, Ensign Paiker of the Infantry, and EiisignCarr, of the rile corps.

The writer of the letter, of which the loregoing is a biief summary, says he was an eve witness to the facts therein stated. (We have seen a letter from a gentleman at Pittsburgh, in whom wc have great confidence, to his ftiend in this ciiy, (Albany) dated April 4, which says the skirmish nlludcd lo aboie, took place on the 29th mid 30th and that our loss was between TO and 80 killed and wounded, besides a few missing. Town Election. The following is a list' of the town efficers suppoitcd by the federalists at the annual town election, which was held on the 5th inst. The entire list succeeded Mr.

Livingston's majority over Mr. N. Myers.the opposite candidate lor Mupervisor, was 178. Mr, iney w.uia amount to two minions nine Boerum's majoiity as Collector, over Mr. hundred and fifty thiee thousand two Mi, ll.i.! hundred and ihrirtysjx solid pound, ol opposition, 1 thrirty six solid pounds ot outer wuitu huuiii loan two iiiuusauu was 326.

nine hundred and fifty three waggons I en.ry A. Livingston, Sa'ien Usr, Constable. w'uh a thousand pounds weight of silver each, leaving a small surplus. How many solid pounds of a year's interest of the last mentioned sum amount to, at 8 per cen It would mount to two hundicd and thirty six thousand five hundred and forty eight pounds of solid silver and it would load two hundred und thirty six waggons with a thousand pounds weight of solid silver each, leaving a surplus of 548 pounds We confess, that, having made the a foregoing computation rather hastily, and perhaps carelessly, and gone over it but once, we cann vouch for its correctness and we are the more indifferent on that head, as we would fain hope that some of the warm friends of Ma' ison and war, may critically review this article, and correct our errors, and publish in the newspapers of their own party a correct answer to each of the questions which we have here stated-A WIMey Speech. During the prsent doium w.

b.w icgisiaiurc ui i ciiiiayivaiiia, om w. in a debate ontho piopriety of raising' tti ou Monday the 4ihiiisi. We have the wages ofthe Members a Mr. Metz seen returns fiora 184 towns, which give ger, oune Assemuty said "that when a majority oi A Daniel Ilebard, Town Clerk, Samuel Luckey, David Dames, Mtesecrt, Teui.isVanKleeck, James Dearin, Commissioners John Forbus, of Richard Everitt.J Robert Noxon, Overseers James Wilson, of Poor. Jacob Bjerum, Collector, Jacob Dor i urn, i John lialding, Amaziah Blake slee, John Clapp, Cornelius C.

Cuyler, John Reed, Lewis Leonard, James Emotti John Drake, jun. Kbenezer Badger, "1 Commissioners Henry Dodge, of James Wilson, Schools. The tleclion for Governor, cc. was new uirougnoqt the state of Massachu. Insjiectors of Schnoli, they wrie elected in October, they did not anticipate that the pi ices of Whiskey and Jamaica would be raised 103 ner cent cir Wine from one to two dollars a bottle.

For hi pan if he had forteenit, he did not know whether he would have consented to serve and indeed he thought that the people themselves would have instructed them to raise their wages." majority of the Senate are known la bo leclcrai. Our legislature are still in session They now propose to adjourn on Monday the 18th inst. We learn from Saybrook, that on Tuesday evening, 7 llniuU barges as. rndcd the river 4 miles a'oovc Siybiock ferry, and liast'set fire to about twenty six vessels Among those burnt, were irUsMp'uhpiior, of this port, and a 'fSBrtfordbrijhc militia were ordered otu, for the pjr'pose of intercepting the enemy; but they returned to their boats in the night. The loss of propcity destroyed is estimated at 8200 000.

J.ang's Xlaz. "A letter from West Point mentions that a sloop, having onboard forty troops from New Yoik, upset off that place on last. Five of the soldiers were drowned, and 15 others wcic taken to the hospital badly hurt. l.ATE NKWS. Wc understand, says the Hoston Palladium, that London Papers to I'cb.

have been leccived at Halifax; that the battle in I'liiico Jan. 31, (of which wo have had the French accounts,) resulted in a ijreat victory to the allies, the loss of the Trench In killed and wo'imled biim; immense and thn the lV'atii'jIc, despatch vessel, from the United Statej, arm id in England in 20 days. The Senate of this state have rejected the bill granting a charter to the Can1 mission Company. The tos wire 5 to 15. and w.vs lo hy His casting vole ot the Lieut.

Ciovunor. A Millcdgcvillc p.i per states that when the ti oops fi nm North and South Caro'iiu arrive, there will he on our frontier body of 9..800 men, and that Genual PiuclTicy is to take the command. F.xtraetofa Utter from a correttondit.t vjfiot till tioiv, has been ranked ammg the friends of the uiln.inhtr'aliun, dated Washington, Apt il 3, 1314. It would be sttane indeed if in the political revolution of the United Slates there should have occuired nothing interesting. In tiuth evrry thing is interesting here.

Every one suspects the fallibility of his own judgment, and distrusts tl.c views and con istency of his ijHondam associates. No one knows himself. All is mystery all is confusion. Hannibal's oxen with the burning ay on their horns, were not mute hkelj lo run in vatious and opposite directions, than that phalanx which only a tew days ao acted with perfect coincidence is like ly to be dispersed and scatteied like feathers in a whirlpool What has pio tluced this sudden re Solution Who, I will i'; in turn, can answer an enquiry so ptiplcxhig The tiuth is, the ad ministration is it unified, as the school boys say. Disappointed in the conquest of Canute, fur the want of a stiflicietit military fuice, in two successive campaigns, the President end his counsellors leaolved on luting an army at the opening of the next campaign, that would annihilate; i distance and give them undisputed possession of the IJiitisli piBvinccs.

Every imagination, pioject, expedient, and plan were examined uiid proved by cot.ferencc and counsel to ascertain how tins overwhelming army could be raised. Thus in a fovr word's I have given you a true history or the events that lead to an abandonment or THE RESTRICTIVE SYSTEM. May it never again be resuscitated! Never Never Ncv er The repeal of the embargo, or its removal by the President, I had anticipated with the most certain confidence and so I whispered in your incredulous car in a very late communication. Pertinent extract. You have author.

iscd a loan for twenty fire millions, and have provided for the expenditure of so much money. Where is the money Clrltndy's sfiecch, From the Federal Rrfiullican, Mr. Madison lias declared That Napoleon is doomed never to rise again." This is the key lo all mjstciies There lore it is that the embargo comes ofi' ihe whole continental system' is abandon ed the noise about impressment will be liushe and ihe war will be ended. These uic Did will be the eeituin tonse (i.ttn.cuof the ovcrlhio.v of Nupoleou Bonaparte. PRESIDENTIAL MESSAGE.

We were told ten days since, by a jrcii llriuan of hih standing, for iiifurmatina, as to the views of our national Cabinet, that the Picsidtnt would leconvuend repeal of the nhargo, just before the Elections came on in the states of Mas sachu' ttts and New Yoik. The piedic tiou'of that gentlemen is fulfilled. Rut whether Congress will sanction this electioneer ing lecommemlalion, tcmuins to I seen. If so, the belter for the people. At all etcnis, however, wc do not believe Elcrlois of this state or of Missaclni setts, will be caught in this I'iigiiia Cull 7cfl.

Hut admitting the President to be serious, docs not this recommendation piove the inutility ami folly of the measure, and have wc not, fiom its commencement, declared it both useless, and MILITARY Movrvl From the Geneve Cjzhu I Mai Gen 31 and the Hoops which arnv'tji uayi ago irom me eastw.M .1 detcd to leiurn.havescin,! til'hl okoit unit '1 Niagara. The 3d re.i numdedby tel. Mitchell, niesofthe 2d, left here and since that laigc numutfl Extract of a Utter from March 38. There are now at sjw noops, exclusive ol I500 the navy. There arc also now building) haibor, a frigate of the first dt, frtnill.

in.erl.. ntl ul nilicn auiuneingiu siate or coraf the enemy piovide no other than those we aie informed nt dorc Chauiicey cun renew tlieJ spung wnii a prospect ol Ueciih Cc Uuilingtcn, unOevs'and that the icpi, north of the lines, is biul.cn vr n. ri ihe i. in. iii ucci nave men oil' Island.

l.tl. LI.ul; and his infantry, 11U1ICU at 1JJV. ulp. i lake and loimcd a junction will. cs on ti, western side, under .1 ui rtiji, vviikins ednes lay last, we leain that; had advunccd within six miltsol my, who weie posted an for lift river l.a Cole.

Col. Clai and )lh weie in the advance, a tricna has just put mio ourh New OrlcensGaiclte. ofM irrh which we extract the following inJ article. 1 New Orleans, Mai A apanisii sclir. lias anived Uayou St.

John fiom Pcnsacola, rii I II 'IB is nil a nun wwit U.J "VllllJ it IV, fvtil Ulltl Winil C.OS1VC i for a moment at the reports that previous lo tniv. nn va. ini.t.tnri Now let US look wicked operation of the rental nnnii it. lnI' hc farming interest. Dming the Jmbairo I UiilishgoternmentbiigCoiit the farmers have sold iheir pioc'ucc at a reduced piicc to ihe ngtnls of govern nicnt and other speculators the mo.

ment the produce has thus gone out of the hands of its oiiginal possessor, into those of the governmental agents, nd speculators, the embargo is repealed, and this gang of harpies reap the fruits ofthc Ubor of tlut class of people, wioiiMr. Jrlrson enwhatically styled "the chosen people of God." We rejoice at the repeal, however, of the idle, ineffectual, rupt andoppiessivc rcstiictive system but at the same time we cannot but led for the honest and iiHustiious farmer who by the rc.eal, at this pailicular juncture, has been defrauded or his hard earnings, asweil as the cntuprisugmei chant who Jiad made his pu' chases of fort ign goods, in full confidence, that the Administration, after its icpeated declarations, wmiM not so suiiueniy and I hc was luiurnicu dv the CJ ilbii lying in the haibour of Pensacoln expidition, intended for New was in considerable forwardness Piovidcnce it consists of eid number ol small shallops (i to operate upon the lakes) and tvj ates ol 38 guns euch. It is neither our interest nor oil nation to piopagatc false intelligt iocxciic giounoiess alarms. stances have long since come know. edge, which induces us to that Ihe enemy meditate an attoc this city.

The species' of ves which, according to the Spanish is to be transported, gives a strong oi prouaouity to his story. To dene id longer on the natiiotism of unexpectedly Imve ll.em.iwaV, 1, changed us cou.se of policy, Reg. "hi ave Kcr.tuckians" to take the field again was ungeneious toiesort to the system a( conscription was certain lo pio ducc resistance and a civil war, '1 hen, what was to be done Abandon the conquest of Canada Alas no 1 If that reso iiou oc iKionicci, sulci uic i lestuctit, the whole Western Country will abandon me. Rather persevere in the conquest of Canada, even if you cannot raise a single recruit, than uive me up a ticlim to the resentment of ihc Western People Rut wh.itcanbedone says his cabinet council Raise an aiNiy Raise an aimy 1 he answers. Hut there is no money in the ticaaury! No matter, raise an aimy live, or promise lo give a gieut bounty increase the i ay, and promise a MON IROUS UOUN 1 If fails, why all is over Well, ihe bounty is piouustd an advance oi a million or two in cipalion o' the annual liniates thorised millions on millions are ani.no priated tosupportand supply an all con.

queiing army duiing the year 1814. Rut behold the year has commenced, and there is no money in the treasury, nor any coming in. A loan is resorted to as the never never failing icsourcc. Jiutto the astonishment and confusion of the chancellor of the exchcquei, theie is jet no evidence thatths loan will be effected. The Ranks arc gutted ah eady ot their capital.

The internal duties aie but a drop in the bucket they will not pay the iMerestof the sum alteady borrowed, No revenue arising from commerce the sales of public lands offered little or nothingand the unfeeling tories who pos sess most of the money of the country, aie actuated uy so nine paiitoium that they will net lend it, without some reasonable prospect of being paid again. Now, as money is the strength, the sinew, the soul, the indispensible, the tine yua noil, the ue filus ultra, of modern war, the prospect of a sudden explosion of all the mighty schemes of conquest, and the reproduction of the rule of 56, as the sailors say, hove in sight. 'I he spectacle was dreadful and appalling indeed The proud confidence that has maiked the demeanor of the arrogant, because igno rant, present leaders oi me administration party, sink into dismay and in despair they began to enquire of tome men whom they were wont to treat whh, contumely and contempt, what mint be done 19 escqie the fier.ls if National Jiankrufitcy The answti has since been Riven and often uiged by Mr. CHEVES, that enlightened and excellent man and ncently in the most glowing, vivid and warning terms, by Mr. KING.

that accomplished statesman and incsist. ille orator" Ciieris Commehce." PRESIDENTIAL MESSAGE. Boston, Ap Con.ititutkn frkale arrived. day afternoon the U. S.

fiigateC( lion arrived at Salem from a cruiz paiticulars of which we have in able lo leain We understand i chased 72 hours by a 74 and a fr that slie run into Maiblehead ye: noon but that harbor hr.imr 1'ive weeks h. ve not elaned. s'lenas lijhtimcdand cnMrmnrl mv Mr. Wiight of Maryland, moved Con It icl that the Biitish men o1 grcsss to lake into consideration the pio. threatened an attack upon Marbli jirit t) of repealing the embat go system.

Upon ihe first news of this dange The House refused to listen to the prop Now England Guards marched I osition. Three weeks scarcely defence of the place, and had elapsed, since Mr Gaston made a similar Chelsea Ilridge before they were in motion, which nasi ejected by an over cd of the safe ariival of the fiig whelming majoiity. These repeated rejee Salem. tionsof ihepiojiosition for upeJing that Several ships of war were seen ofl rnadsysttPi.auihoriscdagcncralbclicfthat port yesterday one of which ludii it would not be repealed, at least duiing a brig, supposed lo be a merchant vi the present session, and thousands of our follow citizens, in their commercial ar. I Latest from France.

By the rangenieins, have acted upon this belief, Fr.mcibo from Cadiz, arrived here vppaieiitly so well founded. The con. terday, we have Spanish accounts to sequcneo is, they must be ruined rulnnil Feb. 1 I Hon 1 for having confidrd in the consistency Mendev Arguclla, a passenger, bn anil and stability of their government! for despatcl.csliom theSpanish govern is au having believed that James Madison was to their minister in this 'country not a time serving weathctcock, and that despatches for the government of tl a majoiity of Congrats were not as flcxi S. Many letters and papers were aeiiuBasiiic leen mat bends received, and are lodged in Hie ros to every hieeze Visionary confidence lice, lieing denied these souiccs, unfounded belief! where are now thy vo only give thevetbal news by this at tanesf Rum has overtaken them, while I We learn, that i.nr,i niiKunn s.umuenug in secuiity, and bmr will they curse the day in which they placed their lmpes in theintegiity, firmness and consistency of an abandoned, weak and wattling administration! ib.

British offer to renew Jay's Treaty, It has been ofien said, that England was willing, on the expiration of Mr, Jays treaty, to make a new treaty on the same terms. This has been denied, and many well meaning people do not ciedit it. The fict is tins When Jay's treaty, as it is called, ex pired, Mr. King was our minister in England, and the English government offered our government, through him, to continue the intercom se of the two na tiohs on the terms of Jay's treaty, until the two governments could agree on the terras of a new treaty. This is the Hue and real proposition made by England on that occtsun.

Our leaders will recollect that Mr. Jay's trcrty was concluded under the administration of. Washington, and ralifi ed by him. The) will iccollect too, the state ofthc nation, vhllu thai licoty was in force, and coiiipaic it with its piesent etutc and llicri let them say, would it not mc been better, more for the inter est and lienor of the country, if Mr, Jefferson had accepted ol the terms which Gieai Riitain olftud, the very terms of wnicii vveitiiiigton accepted, than ro sus tain the multiplying evils of embargo, non inteiCGurtc, taxes and war i sieged Rayonne and was about pro ing towards IJordeaux with 110,000 with anew ot opening a cominunu with the allied armies in the Non That the late report of Bonaparte I made a treuy with FerJinand Tit which ihe Cortes rejected, is confin but that reports from Madrid srated Ferdinand had reached the front That Suchet had abandoned Cat. leaving only small garrisons in Bare and That it was undei at Cadiz, that no proposition for fiom Bonaparte, would be listened the Allies the Napoleon Dynasty soon the French nation a sovereign fiom among the Prince the old dynasty who were purposely the allied armies and that the D.

Angoulene (ivlm was with Lord lington) it was believed would be cli heheinij considered most agiceal Austria tec. NEW FERRYBOATS. On Sunday last the public were fled by the performance of a new in.v Ferry boat, on the New Ferry oil ihis village and Ne York. was inye.ited by Moses ftodgei Ne u.Yuik. It is in soma r'apeth lar to ihc Paulus Hook ferty Uuts calculated to leccive wagns in the commodious way but vhe water in the centre is moved by' eight It crossed the river 12 timet ir.ia day, in from to 18 minutes ah averaging 300 passengers each lir 4 Ki aj, iiCafc.