Western Sun, Volume 3, Number 18, Vincennes, Knox County, 28 April 1810 — Page 2

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States, eight hundred and Gxty nine thoufand, nine hundred and fixty eiht dollars. For forage, fixty four thoufand fix hundred and twenty four dollars. For fubfiftence, fix hundred and eighty five thoufand, five hundied and thirty two dollars and five cents. For cloathing, two hundred and ninety three thoufand eight hundred and four dollars. For bounties and premiums, thirty thoufand dollars. For the medical and hofpital departments, fifty thoufand dollars. For camp equipage, fuel, tools and tranfportatiotj, two hundred Sc feventy thoufand dollars. For ordinance) two hundred thoufand dollars

For fortifications, arfenals, magazines and armories, including two thoufand dollars for fuch a number of additional militaly (tore keepers as may be required, two hundred and eighty three thoufand five hundred and feventy four dollars and feventy five cents. Tor purchafing maps, plans, books and inftruments, two thoufand five hundred dollars. For contingencies, fifty thoufand dollars. For the falary of clerks employed in the military agents' office, and in the ffice of infpector of the army, three thoufand five hundred dollars. For the Indian department, one hundred and forty fix thoufand fix hundred dollars.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the feveral fums fpecifically appropriated by this act, Hi all be paid out of any monies in the treafury not otherwife appropriated. J. B. VARNUM, Speaker of the House of Representatives, JOHN GAILLARD, President oj the Scnate) pro tern March 2, 1810. APPROVED, JAMES MADISON.

It is with very fincere fatisfaction that we have to announce, that there are ftill fome hopes of conciliation with America. It maybe recollected from the language of the minifterial papers, that government is about to fend a negociator in the pUce of mr. Jackfon. Every one mud approve of this determination. The dignity of the countryis not compromifed by confulting its intereft in preference to the petulence of its agents. Every account feems to agree, that the conduct, and ftill more the tone, of mr. Jackfon, has been Uiinrceflarily offenfive. f fuch be the real ftate of the cafe, no one can furely contend that the miniftry at home ought not to have more prudent confederation for the intereft of the country than for the negociator. That all the advantages of a commercial intercourfe with America, are now to be lacrificed, becaufc certain perfons in this kingdom ftill remember the eld quarrel, and avenge themfelves of their difuppointment by dired infnlts on the independence of America. We are forry to have to fay, that according to all credible reports, fuch n party ftill exifts in cur court, and that lords Liverpool and Mulgrave are not confidcred as friendly to America. As to the truth of what mr. Jackfon allcdged, this is no fufiicient excufe for the abrupt and offenfive obtrufion of matters which have been previoufly difpofed of. It appears to us moreover, that the manner of mr. Jackfon has given more offenle thai, any thing in his difcu'Jion. The American jninifter, upon the fugqeftion of a certain fubject, feems to have denied that the American government had any knowledge of it, and even to have alleged the authority of the prefident in this der.i-l mr. Jarkfon

appears, in an avowed dilregard and diftV. lief of this denial, to have infilled on Ins charge, and, contrary to the citabliftied decorum of diplomatic intercourfe, to have directed in accufation immediately againft the American government fuch we fay feems to be the ftate of things upon the comparifon of the accounts at prrfent before us. The American aocrunts fpeak plainly, and mr. Jackfon, if his letter to the conful be given correctly, appears to hive a very inefficient excufe. lmnirdiatrly upon the meeting rf parliament, the torrefpondence will doubtlefs be hid before the houfe. But the mir.ifters feem already to have exrefTed their opinion. If mr. Jackfon be recalled, the Americans will probably he fatisfied, and nutters rnay be arran-d before they can enter into debate pailiaiacnt will have fo much to do

that neither parly has much reafon to wim for any addition to their bufinefs. The minifters will do well if they confine their defence to their own immediate acts. We hope never to fee the houfe again occupied with American bufinefs, the debates necef. farily beget ill blood on the other fide of the water; and our fincere opinion is, that America is the Lift and beft refuge for En. glifh commerce that it is a market annu. ally increafing, Ec which can never be filleJ beyond its demand. England and America feem as if made for each other, the one to affift the other in its progrefs to perfefl civilization. Bell's rr. Messenger. I

FOR THE VESTERN SUN. TO THE CITIZENS OF INDIANA, After an abfence of feveral weeks I have again returned to this, my adopted country, and find from the various publications in the Weftern Sun, that during my abfencc the pitiful flanderer, John Johnfon, an exmember of the territorial legiflature, and, would-be-delegate to congrefs, has reforted to the bafeft falfehoods, and the grofleil perverfion of facts, in order to ruin my reputation, and put down an opponent who has long held him in the utmoft contempt. To refpond to the maniac ravings of a frantitk fool, is difagreeable in the extreme, and nothing but imperious necefiity could induce me to notice an elTay that would difgrace the pen of the moft infamous blackguard. Had John Johnfon, inftead of trotting through the county with his budget of flander on his back, acted a little more like an honeft man, and publickly afferted what he declared in privatej (to wit.) that 44 he was informed that governor Harrifon was' the author of Phocion," .either him or his informant would have been proven a liar, by a better character than himfelf. But fair and candid dealings are not

to be expected from fuch men as J. John

Would have fpoke the truth, for it appears that he mull have been in the lower regions of ambition when he was fcrawling the piece I am now anfwering. And had he, inftead of being the Knight of the WindMill, publifhed his principles fairly, when called on by the 41 Citizen of Vinicnnes" we then fhould have known the courfe he defigned purfuing, but he chofe to conceal them in the bottom of his fcrpentine heart, and whifper them out occafionally. If there is any part of J. Johnfon's literary production that excclls in bafenefs and turpitude, it is his illiberal and diabolical attempt to tarnifh the fair fame of governor Harrifon, his efforts however, are as futile as they are wicked, and only expofe the malignity of his heart, while they excite the merited derifion of the judicious part of the community. JOHN M'DONALD. P. S. Was I difpofed to criticife on the beauty and energy of the diction of John Johnfon's composition, I (hould fay, that if he has not refined upon fibbing, he certainly has upon the Englilh language, for never before did I know it was neceflary to fay two, when fpeaking of " twin kittens" nor can I fo well difcover the application of the following fimile u every body who has converfed with you (N. E. Weftfall) know that the ftyleof your converfation is as different from the ftyle of your compofition, as the north is from the fouth pole." I would advifemr. Johnfon to fpend a few months tuition in an Englilh fchool before he again commences author, for he furely is at prefent illy calculated to acquire literary fame. J. M4D . KNOX CONTY, set. Before me the fubferiber, a juftice of the peace in and for faid county, perfonally came Genl. W. Johnfton, who being firft duly fworn on the Holy Evangelift of Almighty God, depjfrth and faith, That a

few days previous to the election in April,

fon, nor is it believed that he ever received j eighteen hundred and nine, he went to mr.

the information alluded to. He complains

much of Phocion's flanderous attack on his character hut where the (lander is contained can only be difcovered by fuch pumpkin-headed politicians as himfelf. Three charges out of the four exhibited againft

him, remains unexplained and how fsr he has furceeded in refuting the fourth, will appear from the fubjoined affidavits. Although mr. Ewinggoes fo far as to certify that he neither knew me, nor, gave me any fuch information, which I impute to the Tolly of his ambition, and ftiall fay no more on that fubject, but leave you to judge of the cafe from corroborating cir cuftances, for I would not prefume that mr. Ewing would make fuch afiertions without fome ground of aflurance -unlcfs indeed he is fuch a man as the father of John Johnfon has reprefented him and his party, to one of our Supreme Judges. People are not to be hectored out of their

reafon with the cry of flander and fcoun- not know this, Ewinc renlied that he did r

drel, nor is the appearance of a huge un- other converfation might, and probably did couth animal (that might be taken for the take place between them, which from the Ourangoucang) daggering through the length of time, has flipped his recolledion, ftreets with his Herculean club, calculated but he's well aflured if there was, it all to illuminate the undemanding, and difii- j tended to the fame point, as the elation pate the clouds of error and prejudice that j was the bafe of their converfation. The too often obfeurr the mind and intercept above obfervation of Ewing upon that fubthe light of r.uth and reafon from our view. jrfl ne nas repeated in fuftance, to a number John Johnfon fays there is forr.ethirg in of perfons in the county fince his (Ewing's) political lying that ftirs up the heart to die denial of M'Donald's certificate : and

fohn Caldwell's, in Vincennes, upon fome

bufinefs, where he found faid Caldwell, Nathaniel Ewing and John M'Donald .and after having finifhed his bufinefs with mr. Caldwell, he fat down by the hearth, and joined in converfation with Ewing and M'Donald, which related generally to the then approaching election, during this converfation, (which was chiefly carried on by Ewing and MDonald,) McDonald afked Ewing how he could think of fupporting John Johnfon as a reprefentative of this county if he (Ewing) acted from principle, he being oppofed to, and John Johnfon in favor of the introduction of flavery ; to which Ewing replied that he (M'Donald) might make himfelf perfectly eafy upon that point, for that Jchn Johnfon would either remain neutral on the fubject, when it came before the legiflature, oi if he took any part, it .would be to oppofe the intro

duction ; M'Donald obferved, that he did

higlvll pitch of human hatred." Tiue, and nh fuch fentiments were in his a iud he fhould ha ve carefully avoided publifhing what he f.lfrly charges mr. Wtllfall and myfelf with, for he bafely infinuites that governor Harrifon would confer offices on thofe who are in the habit of traducirg the characters of his opponents (or bad men.) But I would flop the wretch, and sfk a tew queftions, why the governor did not give him the appointment of attorney general inftead of mr. Randolph ? Was it becaufehe is a mm pofiVOVd of ftricter honor and verac'.iy than his fuccefsful rival ?

I trow not. He

which he is ready to, and will depofe in a court of juftice, whenever called upon either by Ewing or M'Donald. Taken and fworn to before me, in Vin cennes, the 17th April, 1810. E. STOUT, J. p. K. C. KNOX COUNTY, set. Perfonally came before me, the fubfi rU ber a juftice of the peace for faid county, Samuel Caruthers, and after being duly fworn, depofeth and faith, That fcratime after the election in April, 1809, he had a converfation with mr. Albert Bdol!et, fon

ui wmi n tiuvc io nis lathers vo

fhould fhudder at the ve

ry allufion, id never ap-ain fhrw liU fr

in a mock defence of truth xr,,,i : i tine for John Jnhnfon, who was fn w

infamous falfehood Bt a drowning ! an advoCatc for flav"ry the exprefi w

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From thr Boston Chromclt:. Motshsr Bull Whipping her Child. We read, in the C'utinrl, that " Ameri ca is the fpoiled child of Grc-it Britain. Give a child what it cries for, and the nexmomcnt it will cry for fomething clfe. Give it a found whipping and it will be quiet." It is very true Mother Bull whipped fome of us out of hofton. She whipped us out of Canada. She whipped us at Longifland and New-Yerk and Brandywine. Nay (lie whipped thoufands of our poor fellows to death on board the prifon fliips and men of war; but it is remarkable fhe never yet whipped us till we were quiet : for wc whipped too, as you (hall hear. We whipped Mother Bull eight years upon a ftretch. We whipped hrr foundly at Bunkers-Hill, in Bofton harbor and at Sullivan's ifland. We whipped her in the Jerfey's, and at Bennington. The whipping we gave her at Saratoga, fhe never can forget : nor ever will forgive. We whipped her through moft of the Southern ftateo and then we whipped her out of Yorktown ; and finally we whipped her out o the country. We not only whipped the old woman eight long yars ; hut we whipped her upper fervant George fo frvetrly, that wc absolutely whipped him out of his fenfes, and then old doctor Willis tok the rods out of onr hands and whipped him into his fenfes again. It is remarkable, while Mother Bull was whipping her child, the fturdy boy never uttered a figli or a groan : whereas, during the laft year of our whipping the old lady fhe filled all England with her cries. Icr tears and woful lamentations accrftotied ua to hold our hand, and give over the chaf tifement. Since then, Bonaparte , has whipped her Out of the contine.nt of Europe, and this too, fo feverely, that flie can hardly ftand, lie of g6 She fent one of tier forward little boys, named Franky Jemmy Jackson, over here on an errand to Mr. Madison, who behaved fsucy feveral times ; and at length fo impudently that Mr. Smith down with him, and whipped him until he was quiet.He, befure, roared and fntvelled again in the kitchen, before the fervants ; for which Mr. Giles whipped him till be dared not even fetch a fob. . Some think that the old lady will refent this correction of her fauty err.md.boy ; while others fuppofe that fhe will frr.d for him home, and whip him lierfelf, and fend out another, With more fenfe, and more manners. My opinion is that Mrs. Bull is inwardly vexed and deucedly mortified that Smith fhould whip her little Franly ; hut, fhe durft not fliew it ; becaufc, with her old age, and infirmities, and lareeiiefs, from the long and unmerciful whip or the little Corfican, Hie is little able to treat us as fhe did forty years ago. She remembers tho whipping wc gave her, and dreads the repetition of it. JONATHAN BIRCHROD. The frigate Prefident, capt. Bainbridge," while running at the rate of eight knots an hour, with a pilot on board, Oruck on a fhal in Hampton roads. On hearing her fignalg of diftrefs feveral vefTrls came along and lightened her by taking a number of her guns and ftarting the water cafks, by which means fhe was got off the next morning. It is fuppofrd fhe is greatly injured, for rven after fhe was off the ftioal flic continu

ed to fire fignali of diftrefs.

F. Journal

A Merino Ram, brought from Cadiz by capt. Bruni, in the fhip Atlantic, ws lately fold st New-York for one thmifar.d dollars ; and two Ewes and two Rams, were fold in Philadelphia by col. Humphreys for fix thoufand dollars.

mm will catch at ftraws. If Johnfon had ' of rnr Albm Bollet from the length of faid that " there is not in the EnMifh timc hf cannot r("ColIect, but he is certain

language a futiiciency of words to exDrefi ! thr' al1 lPnPcd t0 d did imprefs him

my hatred and malace againft thofe who detea my political infamy," I fuppofe he

It

with the idea that John Johnfon was under promire to Ewing and his party to oppofe flavery.

iaken and lworn before me. this 25th

is not in my power to prove the con.

verlntiou that took place in mr. Baddolefi day of April, 1810.

om"! j H. STQUT,J.P.K.C.

There is a time for all things. AND why have ye not made hay wbilft the Sun flione ? thofe wlm srp in-

debted tout have been publickly requcftrd to come and pay what thev owe. hi,r tr

have failed to profit by our friendly admo-

- rJ,,-c ii nan. anu ou

Looks. &c. are now in the hands of Genl. W. Johnfton, for colleaion. . Peter Jones, &? Co. April 9th, 1810. BLANK DEEDS For Sale at this Oficct