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to fpcak of this tranfaclion in terms to the ConftltutiAn and Lawsof iU jf migtity Wents.have refulted I The Carte! fliipBcnfiain Fnfc-has arrived at Philadelphia, in "davs from Bordeaux-- A Phi-itielphu paper, of October 3, Np. 5. Copies of letters before allujied New-York, Augufti, 8oo. SIR. It has been repeatedly mentioned to me, that you- have, on different occafious, aflertcd the exiftence of a Britith faction in this country embracing a number of leading or influenciai charafiters of the Federal party (as ufually de-nominated) and that you have mitea to its nature, witnoui loung fierht that Mr.

Adams is Prehdent the United States. This letter avowsthe fufpicion, that the appointment 01 'Mr. Pinck ney, to jthe Court ot London, had been procured or promoted by Briiilh influence. And confider-ing theparade-with which the fto-ry about the Duke of Leeds is told, is fair to confider, that circum- ftartce as the principal, if not the fole ground. of the odious and degrading fufpicion Let any man ot caridour or knowlpd nf the arld nrtmounce on this fbecies of evidence.

P. 14. 1p V. I But a more: ferious queilion will Mr, 'AcW: aniwer to the goverhtrierit-arid to his, country, Tor fciving- fhtw wantonly given the aUertians wmchtneir1 LZf impudently thrown upon-it? Can Ithaefare truft. thatyo will not 7 -r .1.

rr Ideem it imoroDer. that I anoiv di- we oe lurornea tnat men a turrcni fometimes named rae, at others plainly alluded to me, as one fc" this defcription of perfons; and I have hkewiie been -allurea, tnat WHC 01 warm apncrcnw, iu4 elect 1 ioneering purpofes, have cm- P10? a correlponding language. Uf. yu canno, uavc lionet irifinuations, to avow them rfe. rjbcifly to yourfelf, to afcertain from you, in reicrence to your own ue-clarations, whether the information have received, has been correct or not; and if correct, what are thd 1 rrriinnv unon hich you have rrV tne luggeu ions? With ref pea, I have the honour to be, Sir4 Your bedicnt fervant, ALEX.

HAMILTON To John Adams, Efq, Freftdent of the United States. New-York Oft. 1, i8o; The time which has elapfed-fince my letter of the iftof Auguft was delivered to you, precludes the further expectation of an arifwer. ll rfri 4 Wile (llana I ttill nMUf hO nor will I prefume to judge of the fitnefs of filence upon fuch'an occafion, on the part ot the chief magi ftrate of a Republic, towards a citizen, who, with- out a lain has difcharaed fo many important public trufts? But thus much I will affirm that by whomfoever- a charge of. the kind mentioned in my former letter may at any tirrxehave beeit made or infinuaied1 againfl me, it is a bafe-j wicked and cruel calumny deftituteeven of aplaufible pretext to excufc the folly; or mafic ihe depravity which muft have dictated it4 Viti4ue refpcfl 1 bave honour to he, Sir, Youfcobedient fervant, ALEX.

HAMILTON To John Efq. Prefident of the United States.K The follov. ing' account of the late tranfactions at Curracoa, ap- pears more dclerving ot credit than: thofe heretofore publifhed; From a Jamaica Paper of Sept 19. In our paper of yefterday we mentioned that infottfiation had oecn rcccivcn or tnc marmes trom the. Nereidcj having bkeh proflef-ftori of place in Curracoa "wc-have fince been able to learn the caufe of it Some time ago, 30 fmalf veffelii having Fcench troops pn.

board arrived at that fiand from Guadaloupe, tp afiift the banditti that had rebelled againfl their Jnaftefs; thofe planters whofe Haves had remarried faithful to them, and who were afraid of an attack from the -iuiurgents, recjuefted (as we are informed) that, two paffes-well ttificd, butwhich theyeould fjioj protectf thpuldbfe taken pof- leillon of bv tne United States And whereas it js 11 incumbent on the Executive Mall ciflratc of this Commonwealth, Las far as his vpower and juniaictipn extend, to take care that the laws We faithfully executed and, more efpeciallv, that the Conltitution of inc uniica oi wen ntbii State (the (uprem law. of the land) DC piClClVCU- CUVilV in all the proviftons thereof Now, nclnated bV motives of official impreued with a jult ienie ot importance ot the object, ana aen- rous to avoid, on my fart, every caufe of reproach and refponubi- litv. I have deemed it expedient to converc the General AlTembly, to intent, that, on this extraor dinary occafion, the Legiflatui may poffefs an opportunity of fulhlling its Federal obligations, the State mav enjoy its legitimate influence jn tne councils 01 tnc vnion, ana the National Government may de- 1 1 '''I rive energy and itaDinty from a re gular organization or its departments. Therefore, and by virtue of the authority to trie in fuch Cafe given, in and by the ConRitution of the Commonwealth, I have liTued this proclamation, hereby convening! the General Auemhly, to hold a fefSon on Wedncfday cth day ot fuovemoer next, at the tourt- houfe, in the borough of Lancafter: And of which time and place of convening, all perfons therein con cerned are required to take notice. Oiven under my hand, and the great leal of the State, at Lancafter, the 18th day of in tne year or our xora one thoufand ight hundred, and of the Commonwealth the twcntyrfifth.

By thz Governor, A. J. Dallas, Secretary ot the Commonwealth. From, the American Citizen, i A Iketch of the life and cbarac ter, of Charles Cotefworth Pinckney, has appeared in feveral of the Eaftern papers, and the matter therein contained, feems to be intended to influence the votes at the enfuing Prefidential eletHon. How far the writer has fucceeded in promoting an objel of this kind, would belt appear by a perufal of the piecefbut a.

few remarks, perhaps an-fr piirpofe. Irt tiW JErffe- palace, General Piiickney. is. reprefented as de-ierving thexbnHdence and fuffrages of his fellowHSitizens, becaufe he was educated at "th Uhiverfity of Uxtord in England. It is extraordinary, in a free government, av citizen fliould be deemed better qualified for theper-iormance of his civil duties, becaufe he had been educated in a monarchical country.

The fentiment of republicanifm has not fo clofely united itfelf with the American mind, as to be incapable of being dillodged. In proof of thisopimon, twenty in fiances might beadduced: butit is fufficient for our purrkjfe at the prefent, to notice the yielding temper of Mr. Adams, who, after la bouring in the American Revolu- tion, Ipecame, by a fhort refidence in London, fo enamoured with the excellencies of the Britilh Coifli-tution, hat he denominated it the mofl llupendous fabric of human If fuch be' the fact in regard to Mr. Adams, how can we; believe that Mr Pinckney's being educated in England, can be an additional recommendation in favour of his becoming the chief magif-trate of the United States It is acain remarked of Mr. Pinckney, that although he was eiecrea one ot tne committee xor the city of Charleflon to rcmon-ftrate again ft the Britifh Treaty, he declined ferving This (hews how far his Britifh education had attached him ta Britifh meafures and Britifh treaties.

It is now well known how deftructive this treaty has been to our commercial and political exiflence. Nothing, therefore, could be more unfortu nate, than bringing General Pinck- ney forward as a man wno is un willing to ferye upon a committee, whole duty it was to exprefs an ity it was to exprei; opinion upon tne onnm treaty. lpon the Britifh 1 1 Thofe who are in favour of Mr. ino W1U. r-7 Pinckney being Prefident ought y- x' 1 1 1 1 II atafkofthts kind it beloved hisH country, and had a doe fenfe of the injury of Britain is it not clear that he would have been glad of an opportunity of expreffingl fuch a republican lentiment Again, his embafly to theFrench xxepuu.

political merits. We would be that ha try of or was is all no at but of of I II million Certainly noujing refulted. frbxntt, and the couA- ts flill at a great expence in carrying on a ticgociation with France. But the moft extraordinary mark all, and that which" with thecu- logifts of Pinckney, ought com- rZZT. the in? tnat none 01 ms rela tions were ever promoted to office, preferred by him on any occafion; in all his appointments he careful to felccV thofe who were diftinguifhed by merit, Here a llrong infinuatioit, that amongft the relations of Mr.

Pinckney, one could be found who had any merit and thereforei he was under the necefTity of beftowtnghis favours upon thole who were not all related to him It may perhaps be true, that Mri. Pinckney thinks mVrelations hae.no mcrit we cannot fee in this any ad optional reajToh why he (hould be chofen Prefident of the United States. Exlra8 from General WaJhingtons WilL 4 As it has always been a fpurce ferious regret with to fee the youth of the United Mates, lent to foreign countries, for jthe purpofe Education, often before their minds were formed, or they had imbibed any adequate ideas of their own contracting too trequently, not only the habits of diilipation and extravagance, but principles i unfriendly to Republican Government, and to the true and genuine Liberties of Mankind, which there after are rarely overcome." Federal Sciirt. Much haibeen faid in (he public prints, refpecling the views of the Federal Candidates for the Pre-fidency, and of" the leading men who fupport them. It now fully appears, that, whatever agreement there may be to difcard and deprefs Republican Principles, the paflion for pre-eminence has produced lively bickerings amoqgfl them-fclves.

Mr. Adams has long viewed with chagrin the opinions entertained by Lis own party of his talents and has often been incited to exprels himlelt, on tnat luoject, with more frecdoin than fome thought prudent. wenerai Mamnton, wno is known to prefer General Pinckney, as better calculated to further his views, and give him an opportunity of figuring in fome lofty attempt, has rendered hirafelf ob noxious to Mr. Adams, by his active endeavours to difplace him. Mr.

Adams having been long fuf-pc61ed of a powerful attachment to every thing that was Britifh, and of courfc, of being an attor in the intrigues carried on at New-York and other places, to promote the views of the Britifh Court, has, it would feem from the developement of fome occurrences lately made oublic. alwavs endeavoured to caff the odium of fuch an attachment upon his rivals and, latterly, he has aimed his fpleen.at General Hamilton It is not to be fuppofed, that the odium of Britifh influence, bandied about among ft the party; ought to reit no were, it is tounoea upon too weighty a concurrence of cir- curaltances, to be conudered an irll nhantnm In thefp fimM nf public danger it becomes the duty of the Centinels of the People to lay before them every fubject ol public importance and to excite a jnfl degree of circumfpection, by, expo ling the public characters ot thofe men in whom they are called upon to confide. The following are EXTRACTS Fnmi printed Ltuer, (circulated taaonjft a felea party) trom 4 ALEXANDER HAMILTON, Concerning the public ConJudl and Character JOHN ADASiS ESQ. Pitjidemt tf the United No. Occurrences which teppened or come to l- rir0 VlO il Ol 11 rt A I Xdams to thePrefiden cv.

confirm. my unfavourable forebodings f5hisycharaacr have given new and decilive enertnr in my mind to 'c. the fentiment ot his unhtnels for the No, 2. The letter which has ju ft appeared in the public prints, written by him when Vice Pre fident. to Tench Coxe.

is ot itfelt iconclufive evidence of the jufinefs pnr lt Jmuu of it JjVS, this vetfel there are dif- itches trom oi -i- vrcfident of lUe United States. Ve have been favoured, with the prrufal of fome private lcitcrs from oc Baviow, and an America official cl.araaer at Pans, from whi we learn the followmgpar- ticuUrs 4 That thenegociations which had H.f- fufpended, through nomifun-rOnndint? but merely the circum- of the government, being atA lolefv in purfuits which re 'Quired an united and concentrated Vivien of its energies, had been renewed, anu i.va. iim. aftuate the negotiations on both 1 1 1 i'mmlA d. From the nature of the dif- euflions which have been volumi nous, it was not expected that the whole bufinefs of th reifTion could potttbly be concluded during the prefent winter.

Overtures were made therefore fotfuch intermediate arrangements, as huld put an end to Jthe prefent injurious (late of things between the tvo countries, to renew tne comracitiai nncr v-rtnTi a rid to nut a fatal floT to cverv thing tending to warfare. The Americans in France are treated on the old footing of friend Ihip and partiality, and it appears to be a fentiment adooted by the Government of France, that no ftep out'ht t6 be taken at the prefent fafon. which might fubjeft the American Republic 10 the hoftile jealoufy or depredationsof any other power, under the pretence of the ftipwlationsof a treaty. A change has taken place in the cafes of naval capture are to he de auDicaio inuuni uciuic wiirvii cided at Paris. The former Prefi.

dent, was'a man of tardy and timid habits. He is fucceeded by Berlier, a man of much energy, and who was a member of the Committee of ruciic dJjeiY aiicr me J4ii f.u befDierre. He is an ardent advo cate for the freedom of the feas." The General Aflembly of Vermont, convened at Middleburg on the qth ult. The fame day, Ifaac Tichenor, Efn. was declared duly Governor, and Paul Bringham, Efq.

Lieutenant Go vernor. The Editor 6f the Aurora, was andiftcd at the laft Circuit Court held in Philadelphia; by direction of th-Bxeiident, under, the Sedition for his publications rerpefting the proceedings oF-the Senate, and the Caucufes held by certain rneiii- hers, to promote the adoption of me uui ior cuduiiimng a uiiina Committee to decide on the votes of the Electors of Prefident and VicePrefident. The trial was poflponed for want of evidence. Extratl ef a letter from a gzntUman at Fort Wilkin on the Oconee. s- t' Georgia, to nu correspondent iu Philadelphia, dated Sept.

27, t8or. All appearances of hoftilities with the Indians are at an end. The Indians are coming as ufual to trade with us. I afked fome of them what had become of Bowles, they anfwered, "he is gone off; the Indians fall out with him, he te.l them big lie, they find him out; but Colonel Hawkins tell them true, they like him "i The Indians have lately committed fome depredations on the Spaniards, two perfms of that nation have been The following Proclamation was iliued by the Governor of Pennsylvania, as foon as the refult of the elections in the neighbourhood of Philadelphia was known. In the Name an by the Authority the Qt.

imonzvcatth of PENNSYLVANIA. BY THOMAS M'KEAN, poveraar mf the fa id Csmmon wealth A PROCLAMATION. Whereas it isdeclared by the Con- rtirution of the United States, that, for the purpofe of electing a and Vice-Prefiden, 4t "Each State (hall appoint, in fuch manner as the Legifhture thereof may di- to the whole numbers of Senators and. to which the State may be entitled in Congrefs And whereas, the Legiflature of Vennlvlvania omitted to direft the manner in which this State fhall ap point the Eleclors of a Prehdent and Vice-Prefident, to be chofen at the next enfuinsr election for that purple to be holdeu and the ordi nary period prefcribed by the Con stitution of this Commonwealth, for tKp innml f(Tlnr nf tk. Hiknril Anfembly, will not arrive until the laid next enluing of a Prefident and' Vice-Prefident has been iolitn and completed, conformably of (lander has poured out again ft; it, when a man, the fecond irt official frank, the fecond in the favour of the friends of the government; AkUVUClt UV.VUIti.

IIUlUV.lt WiW I II i- I the calumniators it is pecuirany unlucky for Mi Adarn, in this ffair, that he is known to have defired, at the time, the appointment which was given to Mr. Pinckney The Prefident declined the meafure, thinking that it was compatible neither with, the lpint of the Conflitution, nor with the lignity oTthc Government, to dc- fignate the rice-Prcfident to fuch a nation. This Jetter. better than vo- lumcs, developes the unfortunate character of Mrw Adams P. 20.

No. a. 44 The laft material oc- currence in tne aominiitration ot Mr. Adams, of which I fhall take notice, is the pardon of Fries, and other principals in the late infur- rection in rcnnlyivania. To reprefs the dangerous fpirit it was'eflential that a falutary rigor mould have been exerted, and that thofe who were under the influence of the one and -the other, mould be taught that they were the dupes of a fatal delation! The contrary coiirfe which was purfucd, is the mod inexplicable part of Mr.

Adams's conduct. It thews him fo much at variance with himfelt, as well as with found policy, that we are driveft ft? feek: a fyftern of conceffion to his political A fyftem the moft fatal to himfdf, and for the caufe of public order, of any that he could poiliDlv deviie. It is ov temporizings like thefe, that men at the head of affairs, lofe the ref-pel both of friends and foes It is by temporizings like thefe, that in times of fermentation and commotion, governments are proftrated, which might eafily have been upheld, bv an ERECT and IM- POSING P.41. o. 4.

late iK The circum fiances of militarv fituation, have my much lefs to do with my perfonal difcontent than fome others." On the Other topics my feel ings are tar lels neutral. If, as I have been aflured, from refpettable authorities, Adams has re peatedly indulged himfelt in via- lent and indecent abufc of mej if hehas denominated me a mail defii-tute of every moral principL it he nas incmattzeu me as tne leader ot. Britifh faftion; then certainly I have a right to (hink that 1 have beeri rndft cruelly and wickedly aduced; then have l.an xclufivc ight to appeal to all thofe who have been Tpettatars of my public ac- lons- jto ail thofe who are ac- quamtetr witli my private character its various relations, whether fuch treatment of me by Mr. Adams, is of a nature to weaken or flrengthen his claim to the appro bation ot wife and good men; then will I fofarvieldtotheeonfcioufnefs of what lam! as to declare, that; in the cardinal points of public and private rectUude, above all in pure and difihterefled zeal tor the intereftsand ferviceof this country. I fhrink not from a companfon with any arrogant pretender to fu-perior and cxclufive merit.

Having been repeatedly in formed, that Mr. Adams had declared me the leader of a Britifh faitioni and having underttuodthai his parti fans, to counteract the in fluence ot my opinion, were prcf- hng the lame charges again it e. I wrote him a letter on the fu ect dated the fir ft of Auguft laft reply having been given by him imsf prefent month wrotshimangihcr." this letter. I on the nut ot the I ori board the Ncreidc, then cruifiri off the coaft, whih "rcqueft the vptam aumaneiy canlenttfd to, to- protect tnem trom- ne ioToads-. of their baibarouf -The Am fictn fhiD Eagle, fent in hf-rf liv.R Nereidef has, we urtderliand, on board feveral thoufand fland oF anHSj and a vaft.

quantity of eun- powdert which, it. is afferted, fhe. was carryings tor rupply the. rebels under ftand that in confer quince of advues received Curracoa his Majefty's fhips Me-leager La Legre, and another frigate, faded this raornmsf for, thit fland, with all the marinei belong- ins 10 the tleet. The French frlga'cs Concord; Medea, and La Francnue.

having captured a eonfiderable number ot veliels, were returning from Rio Plata to France, with immenfe plunder, when they were met by feveral Englifh" (hip, which cap -tured the two firftj the other -of- Caped. On board the Concord: ws a Spaniard with lQooodoK lars. On th 7i inA. a kli4bth Dutfr. tofttx to W.rtii.

macrs arja fiumvaica talents. mow ims writer wnattj nPare4'i. glad to Rcy. CaUwcll,.