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couli be offered to free people. no more in
fdous attack upon their rights, than was that
iGnsIe expreon, by which he pretended TO di
veft himfelf Of all io!citude re(p Cling the lac
eratons of the prels."


That officer who avows an indifference to re-
putation is an enemy to republican govern !
n,ent. The /" lacerasions of the prels" are the
feveref puni(hment, which can be inflicted for
mifcondutt and fhould Mr.. Jstferfon be able
to perfuadc the publick into the fentiment he
has advanced, that all cenfure is to be difregar-
ded, he will have completely difarmed the SEN
tinel of our liberties, and may commit outrage
upon outrage witk impuity.


That the prefs has been proffituted to the Vie
left purpofes cannot be denied but initead of
inking i. fill lower let it be corrected. Let our
public characters, If THEY DARE, purify the
! channels of popular information. by psotet7ing
trmh, and d,fonnteuancing taJiboad. Profecu-
ton is the only means BY which it can be re-
ought to be the duty of every publick officer to
prolecute the man who attacks his reputation.
Let truth be admitted in jufti6cation then
would our journals which are now too juitly
conGdered as delerving little credit, become
tctTOur 10 eecli uOcrS.


"Eow many then ihould cover ths, }and bare,
"How many be commanded that command"
Capture of Suyinam, confirmed. Letters from
Surnam to perfons in this town., confirm the
capture of that place by the Engiib, on the 4th
cf May. 1t is underltood their was conhdera-
bic oppolition. The Dutch CARTONS were per-
mitted to march out with the honors of war
After the Englifh obtained poileiIion, they ffu-
ed the following


PROCLAMATION.
Wbeeyeas the /stfitmenf of Surinam, and ns de-
dependencies has jurrsudeyfd, to THE ay5 Of bi5 Bril-
fanuc no;ey, and dfbe,e6y become colony Of the sni-
ted kingdom Of Great Britein and Ireland, zoe bow
jndged nera9a,y BY fbsf prssnts, to eaoin all tbe
ga0d Inhabitants Of tbi; place to conduit tbemeives
qOifb regularity, and tranquility and as beboves THE
royal Iayt7 Of bis End maieay.-We do further
give them THE t.l2ea sDaranee, that their pr9ans.
and property @aHi" eve,y 'spe7 Be Sesre, and pro-
! te7ed, for sUMeb parp9ss the Rrif7ea ordtr bous
been giSen to the Troops -and that tbe infere2s Of
tbe inhabitants Of Surinam, as biz msieay /aiet7s
! bove been particularly yeeommendedto to US.
We do aJI0 make ku0sua to all p>yj0nr that THE
goveynent Of ttif colony ands dependencies is TO be
held BY Major General Sir Charles Green, until bi.
mayefy's plta/ure is knoaun.


Given under our hands at head quartsrs Param-
a,ibo, the 7tb May, 1904, and in the 44t6
Year efbis maieays Reign.


God /aw The King.


(sigued0 CHARLES GREEN.
SAMUEL HOOD.
Another proclamation declares that the laws,
cuitoms. and ufages, will remain the fame at
crs{suf hefove he Y,lo~e cartnveJ





Imi,.-Commodore Preble writes from Sy-
racufe, March g, that he has intelligence that
force, and that it is whfpered it is to act againt
frigates are fitting at Malta, and one with final
Ter vefels, at Tunis. The Commodore is 60.
ing of runis to look alter the bu6nefs.


Capt. Blagge, arrived at New York from
Leghorn, informs, that a Neapolitan frigate,
and fhip of "a guns, failed from Naples on
the 2oth of March, to blockade all the ports of
Tunis and it was faid at Naples that they
were to Join the American fquadron under the
command Of Commodore Preble. Commodore
Preble had bomb ketches ready at Syrac ufe
OH the 10th of March II he Syren and Nau-
titus were crui6ng off r fipol.- Commodore
Prcble had applied to the King of Naples for
the loan of IS gun boats. lying at balermo, and
it was iaid at Naples that the King had gran
ted them to him. The rripolitans had only two
cruifers out, brig and fchooner, both of which
were up the Archipelago.


Alettcr from Tripoli, Feb. "a, ftates, that
the American prifoners had not experienced
any feverity of treatment in confequnc of the
detruetion of the Philadelphia frigate. Pal


Depredatims.-The Philadelphia Evening
Pof, democrat paper, aates the whole number
Of American yefeis captured by the French in