The Antijacobin review - 1799 Author:Unknown Author Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ???. VII. A Short Account of the Principal Proceedings of Congrefs, in the late Sefliw, and a Sketch of the State of jfffairs bet-ween the United States and Fran... more »ce, ii 'July 1798. Ina Letter from Robert Goodloe Harper, Efq. of South Carolina, to one of his Conftituents. Bvo. Pp. 25. Price is. Philadelphia printed. Re-printed for Wright, London, MR. Harper is well known, asoné of the moil able and nrenuous defenders of the rights, laws, and liberties of his country, againft the daring ufurpations of foreign tyrants, and the more dangerous confpiracies of domeftic traitors. The prefent letter was, apparently, written with a view to reconcile his countrymen to thofe new burdens, which the aggreiTive conducl of the French had rendered indifpenfibly necefTary, He Hates the military force of the United States, fince the late augmentations, to amount to 13,000 men, in addition to whjch, the Proficient has been authorized, in cafe of a declaration of war on the part of the French, or of imminent danger of invufion, to raife a farther body of 10,000, to be called " The Provillonal Army," and to accept the fervicc ot any Volunteer Companies who may offer themfelves as part of the army (Many of thefe offers have been already made.) Of the naval force Mr. H. fays— " When the armament now ordered is complete, we fhall have at fea nine large frigates, twelve Hoops of war, of from twenty to twenty-four guns, fix of from fixtcen to eighteen, about ten cutters et from eight to fourteen, and ten gallies; maki'ig in the whele forty-eight Ihips of war : no inconliderable force for the firft effort of a nation which, three months ago, had not an armed vellel afloat except feme three fmall cutters," p. 7. But, notwithstanding thefe formidable preparations, and the patriotic fpirit which has di...« less