Gazette Of The United States

For the GAZETTE of the UNITED STATES.

MR. Fenno,

AN informant of Mr. Bache's in the Aurora of this morning states, that a meeting of the Citizens of the County of New-Castle in the state of Delaware, collected at Christiana Bridge to express their sense of the late Treaty, That the meeting after reprobating the treaty, burnt Mr. Jay and the two Senators from that State in effigy. In those facts Mr. Bache's informant is correct; it only remains to give the public full information on this head to state who the persons were that composed this meeting. That a friend to truth will undertake to do. In consequence of advertisements affixed in different parts of the County, about two hundred and fifty persons met at the place appointed, and without a Chairman, President, Moderator, Committee, or resolves, or one person capable of putting a question, so as to take the sense of the meeting they damned the Treaty. When this was done they paraded the figures which they had previously prepared, in a Cart to a gallows erected for the purpose, and there burnt them. As soon as this ceremony was over, the principle of association which seemed to connect and fraternize them evaporated, and as if his infernal majesty to do mischief had arisen from the ashes of the figures, the meeting broke up, in damning, boxing and mutually execrating each other.

The meeting was conducted by a man who had been some time before elected a Lieutenant in a Volunteer Corps raised in opposition to the laws of the State, and who earns his daily bread by Cart-driving. The meeting was altogether composed of men of that stamp, men generally unqualified to vote at elections, and whose insignia are Cart-whips, spades, and shovels, except between fifty and sixty negroes with whom the whites promiscuously associated and fraternized. Be assured Mr. Fenno, that neither Mr. Jay, Mr. Vining or Latimer, feel much mortification at being burnt out of such chequered company.

August 15.