Gazette Of The United States & Evening Advertiser

From the General Advertiser

AT a meeting of the paper Noblemen of the United States and the emissaries of the British government, to take into consideration the resolves of the Democratic Society, irredeemable public debt in the chair --the following resolutions were unanimously adopted.

1st. Resolved, that it is the unalienable right of stock-holders, stock-jobbers, bank-directors, and speculators to discuss with freedom, all subjects of public concern, and that as no other person or persons are seized with this right, as they alone have the genuine interest of the public debt at heart, it being the paramount interest of America, to which all other interests ought to submit.

2d. Resolved, that the high professions of disinterested patriotism, held out by those persons who are not within the vortex of the funding system, are very equivocal proofs of their public virtue; and that every man may be suspected of treason, who dares question the republican tendency or virtue of that system.

3d. Resolved, that it is highly politic and generous, for any citizen of America publicly in Congress and out of Congress, to pour forth illiberal abuse against the French nation, merely because they are the enemies of Great-Britain, and the combined powers : We say politic, because powerful nations may thereby be conciliated to lend a helping hand to our views, and assimilate our government to theirs ; we say generous, because France aided the rabble of this country, to assume their station in government, and thereby frustrated the good intentions of our beloved mother country. And because France may by her influence and example, destroy those seeds of aristocracy and monarchy, which have been sown with so much secrecy and care, and which we have so sedulously cherished.

4th. Resolved, that although the public faith has been pledged to France, to guarantee her West India possessions, and to admit her to certain privileges, to the exclusion of the British nation, all persons or societies, who directly or indirectly shall endeavour to preserve our national engagements, are guilty of a breach of our funding interest, and ought to be considered as enemies to America.

5th. Resolved, that the determination expressed by the Democratic Society, to abide by our national engagements, and preserve our national friendships, is a flagrant instance of inconsistency; for " Pacificus" asserts, that interest and not honour or gratitude ought to be the bond of nations, and he is our bible. That any insinuation against him or the President, is a proof of impudence and presumption, as experience testifies that a man who has once done right, can never do wrong.

6th. Resolved, that although we have not had the spirit to resent the outrages committed upon our trade by the British nation, and that although we have not fulfilled the terms and spirit of our treaty with France, we ought to resist with all our strength, the attempts of France to retaliate upon her enemies, and oblige her by all the energy in our power, to observe a scrupulous exactness in her engagements with us.

7th. Resolved, that the outrages offered to our trade, or citizens by Great-Britain, will probably be pocketed in a much more proper manner, or with more grace and composure, much more easily obtained by the submissive conduct of our national Congress, and the long tried forbearance of our Executive, than by the intemperate suggestions, and noisy declamations of any ragamuffin society, or of the people, wishing to bawl itself into political consequence, or to bark the government into honor and justice.

8th. Resolved, that the trade of America has been the means of prostrating her
at the feet of some of the tyrants of Europe, and that this trade, having been greater with Great-Britain and her colonies, than with all the rest of Europe, its interruption at this time, would overwhelm the British and treasury influence here, in unspeakable distress; Neither could its loss be supplied by any commercial privileges which could be granted by France, overrun with banditti, and devastated by incendiaries ; for from Great-Britain, we should import the pure bullion of corruption, but from France the abominable dross of equality.

9th. Resolved, that however foreign Ministers may be abused, for adhering strictly to the instructions of their own Sovereigns, yet these instructions are by no means to justify them for daring to hold contrary opinions to the Sovereigns to which they are sent ; neither is any Minister, on that account to affront the Sovereign to whom he is delegated, by asserting the rights of his nation, or by any conduct in opposition to that supreme will.

10th. Resolved, that every government has a natural right to make its treaties a matter of convenience: That we rely implicitly on the abilities of our Executive to do so, and that the sense of the United States, respecting our treaty with France, has been abundantly collected and evinced, by the numerous addresses and resolves, from stock-jobbers, speculators, British agents &c. from every quarter of the Union.

11th. Resolved, that Imperium in Imperio, or one Sovereign authority within another, is a fatal solecism in our present politics, and incompatible with aristocratical liberty : We, therefore, deem any particular Democratic Society (not an aristocratical one) rising in the midst of our great energetic government, and presuming to give an opinion upon the measures of our constituted authorities, fraught with the destructive materials of inequality, inimical to proclamations, and usurpations, and highly insulting to the officers of our government ; who confiding in their own wisdom and energy, wish neither the advice nor interference of the people or the mob, in any shape whatever.

12th. Resolved, that we are united in the bonds of civil society, for the purpose of making masters and not agents : That Liberty without a master is a delusive phantom, and that the greatest blessing which it can give is submission. That the despotism of the people, is as tremendous an evil, as that of a Monarch, for the people always tyrannize over themselves : And that to encourage this despotism, is to incur the execration of mankind.

Signed by order of the Meeting,

ALEXANDER PACIFICUS, Secretary.