Western Sun, Volume 3, Number 14, Vincennes, Knox County, 31 March 1810 — Page 1

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VOL. III.

SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 1810.

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General Assembly of the Indiana Territory. Price Fifty Cents. FOR SALE AT THIS OFFICE, THE REAL PRINCIPLES OF ROMAN CATHOLICS, BY A FRENCH CLERGYMAN. Carefully revised & Eluculated with Notes

(BY AUTHORITY.) LAWS of the U. STATES. Session 1809 & 1810. AN ACT Authorising the discharge of William Hawkins from his imprisonment. BE it enacted bv the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled. That the marshal for the district of main be and he is hereby authorised and directed to discharge William Hawkins from his imprisonment upon an execution issued against him in behalf of the U. States : Provided, That the said William Hawkins shall pay and satisfy all the costs that have arisen on the part of the United States in the said prosecution, and shall asign and convey all

the estate real and personal, which he may own or be entitled to, to some person for the use and benefit of the United States, under the diretion of the Secretary of the Treasury ; find provided also, That any estate real or personal, which the said William Hawkins may hereafter, acquire, shall be liable to be taken and sold, in the same manner as if he had never been imprisoned and discharged, as aforesaid. J. B. VARNUM, Speaker of the House of Representatives. GEO: CLINTON, Vice-President of the United States, and President of the Senate. February 20, 1810. APPROVED, JAMES MADISON.

FOR THE WESTERN SUN. TO THOMAS RANDOLPH. SIR, THE Editor informed me that you were the author of the piece over the fsignature of Alpheus.—Had I, sir, heretofore treated you in any other way than as a gentleman, I should have made some allowance for the low, but violent invective of

your piece. You, sir, have stepped forward clothed with all the mysterious trappings of

the office of Attorney General, as the un-

provoked scribling Quixote of the day, and no doubt your lunarian production will have its merited weight, and you receive the shining merits of its author—sir, when the Attorney General (who by virtue of his office is an organ of the government) descends from the dignity of his office, and becomes an unprovoked scribler in the newspapers against private character ; it is an

evidence that there is something wrong in

the government. I, sir, in my answer to

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ficticious name, claim the privilege of an tdd termagant, of faying what you pleafe. When you have read tins far, you will, I fuppofe, exclaim, that I have made ufe of nothing but illnatured dedarsation-1 am forty it refemles your own production fo much- you, fir, fay you will make fomeallowance for my mortiffd pride and difappointed ambition" i fuppofe you judge of my feelings by your own, for you run the heats twice laft fpriug to be elected, and you (hot outfide of the polls both times now, fir, I fuppofe you think we ought to jog on in the fame track of difappointed amoiuon tojether When 1 fat down to anfwer your piece 1 intended to have made a ferious reply to the charges contained in it, hut whrn I came to examine your production, I found it rcfemhled Thos. Pain's deftription of the ancient claim of Virginia, that it contained Point no. Point. As you fy 4 the fubject is too hateful to dwell on," I (hall leave your production to creep off into the tomb of unprovoked and illiberal abufe. i am, fir, not Your humble fervt. JOHN JOHNSON. .! 1.11 I ... ... . N. R. I would thank you to inform your worthy friend, Newton E. WVftfvll, whofe caufe you have volunteered in, to re fer to the petitions relative to governor Harrifon's re-appointment, which are filed in the clerk's office of the houfe of repre fentntives, and there you and him may both fee that the Date ment 1 made relative to the number and quality of the petitioners, and the nature of the petitions to be correct you may likewife inform him.-th3t no body believes his fycophantic certificate, certifying.that he is the fole author of his efiay oi lies again ft me, for when a man is jude in his own cafe, and give judgment in his own favor, there is ftrong evidence of corruption,

and in order to clear governor Idarrilon in my mind of being privy to the writing of the piece, it nuift be Htablifhed by fome re fpec-

tabh- perfon, not fuch as either Wef.fall or M Donald, 1 Hull fir, make my infiru iti ons good agreeable to your requeft", but nrt through the columns of a newspaper, for that method of attack, until facts are eftablifhed, I equally defpifr &c abhor, it referobles too much the covert conduct, of an r.f. ialfin. J. JOIIN50N. FOR THE WESTERN SUN. To GEORGE LEECH .zc I am one of thofe vho vote from princ;p!e and not p-rty motive", ar.d I hud 1 eretfore coticludec! to vote frr you at th- en- : uii'g el-c ti'n, but a re;v rt now i.i circulati(;r:, ar..l which I am informrd proceeciri jr:n Wilii'm MlTUoni 41 that you h , 1 pie'..cu vourfrlf to him to oppr.fe nv d all -! :::-ifi: rr s ; tiic Executive rf the

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ch-ritable in thus calling upon you for n rr futation of the report it this late period in as much as an opportunity is not afforded you of a public denial But when you reflect that the report has been in tircu lation fince the 18th inft. and that it c?me to your knowledge a fufHiicnt time for you to have refuted it by a yea or a ny, in tic laft Wcftern Sun, which I any.iouflv looked for, and wifiied, ht:t was difappointed, you ought not to grumble and fay, that men io not vote from principle when you lenrn from the polls, that by this you loft the fufTrsgrj of A VOTER; TO THE EDITOR OF THE WES: 'IERN SUN. SIR. I HAVE been informed that therein a piece lodged in your ofiice to be published,

exinuiting charges againit me as a candidate it the enfairg election, I hare been lik ewife informed that one of the charges i?, that I had pledged myfelf to William M4Intofh to eppofe the Governor and all hismeafures if elected, oir this report is abfolutely falfe. This report fir is flarted in my opinion by fome, malicious perfon to injure my election. 1 confider it in the light of a low and dirty electionering trick I am likewife, informed that the author of the piece through delicacy kept back the piece in hopes that I would contradict the report in the ners paper, but reft afTuad fir, that I never thought of a thing of that kind and that I believe it was ingendered in the mind of the author and he has given it currency as abafc electionering trick. GEORGE LEECH.

HAM EURO, December 5. We have not received pofitive informs tion concerning the future5 organization of

the Hanfctowns. The following are the particulars deferving the rr.cft credit : The Hanfetcwns will be called the United aijd Free imperial Cities they will he under the protection of the emperor of France, will fur nifh a quota to the confederation ot the Rhine, (1S00 infantry, be fides cavalry, and i'OO artillery.) Their drputie3 will affirm! le at certain times for the purpofe of confuting about their interrfh. Thcfe ci ties can only have an embafiWor at tTe emperors court. The other perfons can nn ly have a conful (it the imperial Haul towns.)

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