1810.} 
nister‘in London with it; and by this 
means causing them to capture a num- 
ner of vessels who were iznorantof the 
new law, and who, it is presumabie, 
would not have exposed themselves ‘to 
capture upon such grounds, had time 
been given for the owners to be possessed 
of the intelligence. Is not this “acting 
upen an exr-post-fucto law, and of course 
ubjust and cruel. 
The Marquis Grusa, the Spanish am- 
bassador, has just been ordered away 
from Washington, in consequence of an 
insolent letter to the secretary of state, 
Madison, in which he comments very 
ungraciously upon several parts of the 
president’s speech, relative to Spanish 
affairs. Heeven goes the length of de- 
nyipg some of his statements respecting 
the seisure of the Kempors, and the vex- 
ations practised by the Spanish authori- 
ties on the Mobile in the Mississippi 
territory, Supposing his reasonings and 
assertions are founded. on facts, and 
borne out by documents, (which latter is 
not the case), still is it not in the province 
of the ambassador of a foreign power, te 
presume to tell the president ‘his duty. 
‘That certainly behoves the people who 
elected him: he complains that the pre- 
sident has mentioned the spoliations 
committed by Spamish armed ships, and 
omits those committed by British armed 
‘vessels, when it is notorious that some 
thousands of American seamen are im- 
pressed from on board American vessels, 
and made to fight against the king, his 
master, on board of British ships. he 
marquis and the president have ad been 
upon good ‘terms for some tin The 
court of Madrid has been applied to for 
his removal, which it consented to; and 
it has been understood that the marquis 
had an intimation to that effect, so that 
-he might leave the country without the 
disgrace of a recal; but he is proud and 
obstinate. He is at present in Balti- 
more. He 
-M' Kean, governor of Pennsylvania, 
Sept. 14, 1810. be WG 
( To be continued. ) 
—t 
Tothe Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR; 
THINK you cannot do better than 
to fill up any vacant column with 
the following extract - @ too-much 
negiected historian; who, though he got 
abused by the whigs of his time, seems 
to have manifested more real sentiment 
be liberty and trne patriotism, than can 
NInLY Mas. No. 206. 
ig PIS 
Essays on the Theory of Inflexion. 
married. a daughter of 
3 417 
be found among many, of the whigs of 
our time.’ 
“ It was constantly the unhappy fate 
of these wars, in fornier ages, (for foreign 
ene. and considerations) that, though 
they began with some victory, or action 
glorious to the Kaglish, they ever ended 
with loss and dishonour, the nature of 
things not allowing a war unequally 
carried on, to be for any Jength of time 
successtul; and it will puzzle the most 
zealous advocate for our late wars, to 
find out any benefit that hath thence 
accrued to thisnation; whilst every body 
féels the insupportable load of debts 
and taxes, which have ruled most of the 
ancient families of our gentry, and sees 
the general corruption, with an infinity 
of other evils, which they have ocea- 
sioned. When these will have an end, 
late posterity may possibly be able to 
tell !” 4] Oa 
Se Se 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
MR. WRIGHT’S NEW THEORY Of INe 
FLEXION. 
\ (Continued from vol. 29, page 134.) _ 
ATURE has given to every animal 
N certain signs, or symbols of ex- 
pression, with which correspondent spe- 
cies are eminently conversant. Nor are 
these signs of emotion restricted to man 
alone, neither do they peculiarly attach 
to any particular species ; for im_many | 
instances of the cries, or signs of lamen- 
tation in the irrational creatures, we can 
distinctly oliserve their kindred emotion; 
ae each of his kind, as he may be more 
less gifted with sensibility, propor 
aie discovers this leading feature of 
expression. But these instinctive-signs: 
are not, by any means, analogous to lan- 
guage, | Not being comprised of articus 
lated voices, they,are the less gualifed to 
communicate ideas, or intéllectual im- 
provement; and, ‘consequently, they can 
be only servic cable to make known their 
several CoRR Endowed with rea 
son to contemplate the divine origin oF 
his existence, how pre-eminent a station 
then does man hold among the various 
ranks of created beings in this lower 
‘world! Speech being the most distine 
guishabie attribute which exalts. man 
above the brute creation, to improve it 
to the utmost of his ability, seems to be 
an incumbent duty. 
In recommending to the man of sci- 
ence, the scholar, and the gentleman, the 
study of the English languages is we uld 
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