Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

The Gazette:
PHILADELPHIA,
THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 16.

The present stagnation of business, however melancholy, will not probably continue for any length of time, being evidently to be traced to causes entirely within our own controul. To the existing scarcity of money, no cause, perhaps, has contributed with so immediate and extensive effect, as the 8 per cent. loan. Mercenary declaimers had maligned the Secretary for fixing the rate unnecessarily so high : the event has shown their ignorance and impudence. Another powerful drain upon the circulating medium of the country exists in our India trade : this has been yearly increasing : and the exports of cash for the last year, to India and Canton, will, it is believed, have exceeded all our former experience. The difficulties arising from both these causes, will remedy themselves : foreigners will take part of the loan; and the natural course of that commerce will retrieve the inconveniences it gives rise to.

The origin of the prevailing embarrassments, we owe however to a deeper and more powerful cause -to which, too, the remedy is simple and easily put in operation. A war with France would in two months revivify every department of society. Commerce would be invigorated: the funds would rise, and every employment of life would receive new vigour from its connection with them. This issue we are in a fair way to attain from the uncompromizing hauteur and brutal rapacity of the enemy

We published, yesterday, a statement, which was communicated by an eye-witness, of a flagellation inflicted upon one of the United Irishmen concerned in propagating that Diablerie of slanders and lies, called the Aurora, and who it since appears, is the fellow that calls himself " the Editor of the Aurora."

Although the punishment of this caitiff is of no more consequence, than that of any other vagabond, yet, as he has the impudence to make a parade of his sufferings and his republicanism, we shall bestow a remark or two, which the insignificance of the object would not otherwise require.

It is not for me to say any thing in justification of the officers ; but this I will say, that to have borne in silence to be called thieves, ruffians and caitiffs, as they were called, would have been to resign all pretensions not only to the character of soldiers but of men.

A body of men, as respectable in character as any in the United States, after great expense and sacrifice of time in equipping and training themselves, make a further sacrifice of business and of ease, for nearly two months, in a toilsome enterprize, in defence of their country and its constitution. In their absence on this expedition, they are maligned with every slander, that the foul malice of an incendiary can invent, and after their return, are insulted and braved, even to their very teeth by accusations of the most atrocious nature, heightened in their capacity to irritate, by their utter falsity.

When the officers reflected on these things, and more especially when they reflected, that the same villain who uttered them had called a man whom they in a particular manner revere (many of them having fought the battles of Independence by his side) a common friend and father, when they reflected that the same villain and the same paper had called the great and good Washington a hypocrite, a fool, a liar, a coward, a tyrant and a murderer—the present illustrious Chief Magistrate, who co-operated so powerfully in council with his immortal compeer in the field, in obtaining our Independence, " a blind, bald, toothless, crippled dotard" the brave Commodore Truxton, and all his gallant officers and crew, treacherous assassins and murderers,-when they reflected on these things, and reflected that the author of them was not an American but a foreigner, and not merely a foreigner, but an United Irishman, and not merely an United Irishman, but a public convict and fugitive from justice ; they might have determined that nothing from so vile a source could stain their well-established credit, and they might have let him go on, as he would have done, from calling the whole body of horse a gang of thieves, to applying the odious epithet to individual troopers by name. But then must they have stifled every distinctive attribute of a soldier and a man of honor, and sunk to the level of the Democratic crew.

This infernal Aurora, and the infamous United Irishman who conducts it, are expressly chargeable with the Northampton Insurrection. An unhappy man, lately brought into a melancholy situation, declares that he dates his ruin, from the day he first saw the Aurora. Added to this, is the uniform tenor of that paper, since the Insurrection has been pending. They early pronounced, in the face of day, and after the Proclamation of government, that there was no Insurrection-that the marching of the troops was a government-trick to extend its powers, and did whatever in them lay, to thwart every step taken for quelling the rebellion.

We have forborne to approve the step taken by the officers; but the coundrel on whom it fell, is the last who should com- plain-having justified every species of out rage, however sanguinary and cruel, when exercised on a particular description of persons.

The whole of what this lying and cowardly caitiff has asserted, respecting the officers, or any one of them having pistols, is totally false, and attributable perhaps in some degree to the influence of terror, as well as to a natural propensity to lying. He asserts another falsehood respecting the number of persons who struck him.

One circumstance ought not to pass away unnoticed, on account of the extravagant and ridiculous eructery it displays. He calls himself a Republican. What can he know of republicanism? and what has a Republican? Jails and dungeons are forsooth pretty seminaries of republicanism !

Communications.

MURDER! MURDER ! MURDER!

Citizen Dwight in his candid account of the magnanimous manner in which he received his flagellation, has forgot to mention that he bellowed MURDER ! from the time he was taken hold of till the discipline was completely gone through-I dare say this omission has arisen from the haste in which he drew up his statement, and he will no doubt correct the error in his next edition.

Jasper Dwight told his customers, on Saturday last, that in Monday's Aurora he should publish a laboured vindication of the troops employed in the Northampton Insurrection; and he has this morning exhibited himself as a Belaboured vindication of the same subject. We would advise this gentleman to change his climate the cowskin of America cuts as keenly as the lash of India.