The National Intelligencer And Washington Advertiser

NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.

We have received a Pamphlet printed in London containing the INAUGURAL SPEECH of THOMAS JEFFERSON, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, With a few REMARKS on its probable effects; which we submit to our readers.

They will be surprised, as we were, at the bold spirit of truth and the ardent love of liberty which appear to animate the writer, and infer from so open a declaration of republican sentiments, that a large portion of Englishmen, viewing with admiration the principles, and with approbation the measures of republican governments, will feel little hesitation to co-operate, on a fit occasion, in their establishment.

"HAIL LIBERTY! Ye votaries or victims in her cause; whether hoisting at her profaned altars, or expiring in unwholesome dungeons, ALL HAIL!!!

"The willed for event, in which philosophy and the lovers of human kind are interested, has occurred. Jefferson has been elected President of the United States of America, but which is more, an inauguration Speech, by way of address to the Senate, the members of the House of Representatives, the public officers, and a large concourse of citizens assembled on the occasion, proclaims those sentiments and dispositions his friends and admirers have long observed him to cherish. Yes, ye lovers of freedom and justice, this well-timed promulgation will prove a denunciation to every abettor of tyranny, whether in America or Europe, and why may we not add Asia and Africa; for commerce resembling Pandora's box, which contained the evil as well as the good, like that too contains Hope, and its fruit at the bottom. It spreads knowledge, it diffuses reason, it promotes intercourse between nation and nation, and makes men (who alas, will, in some respects resemble less rational animals) unwilling to live in strife with their fellow men, with whom they have once had an intercourse. The constitution of America is obviously the most free one we know of: the government of that New World is stronger, because juster, than any we witness in the Old. Men of all descriptions have no objection to be governed; they must submit to controul if they would live in society; but freemen will have a voice in the laws by which they and their affairs are to be ruled, their property and their lives to be disposed of. Is this desire rebellious? Shall the sound of the word Jacobin, like the basilisk's eye, infatuate us to forego our rights? Shall we "be pushed from our stools" by a mere phantom? No more of these air-drawn daggers to frighten us from our purpose. Let us set about peaceably reforming our own abuses, let us endeavour to be happy and free; we must be free to be happy. The race is begun, the glorious contention, who shall be most useful, most beloved, seems to have taken possession of a new race of men. The Titans are overcome, the giant rebels of nature and heaven, who would have braved the skies, are thrown down by the thunder of Reason, that second Jupiter. Changes may not be so dreadful, they may change the present iron age into a golden one.

"The language of the new trans-atlantic President may confirm the wavering patriot on this side the ocean. It may have a good effect on the great: Buonaparte himself. -- It may make him, whom we have no reason to doubt, honest in intention, still more sincere The now confirmed government of America will be, perhaps, to the framers of constitutions, henceforward a normal school, a model for statesmen to work by. - Let the countrymen of Jefferson then, who are a part of ourselves, give him the confidence he asks, there can be no danger in so doing; while his actions correspond with his declarations, continue to give him confidence, never forgetting (nor should he, and all men in similar situations, ever forget that whatever country has a Capitol has also a Tarpeian Rock."