UPON what basis does our Independence rest, so far as respects the recognition of Foreign Powers? Upon the basis of the UNION.–In what capacity did France first acknowledge our Independence?

PUBLIUS has shewn us in a clear light the utility, it might be said, the necessity of Union to the formation and support of a navy. There is one point

The government of Athens was a democracy. The people, as is usual in all democratical governments, were constantly alarmed at the spectre of ARISTOCRACY; and it was common in that

In the first number of the Federalist, which appeared in the INDEPENDENT JOURNAL of Saturday, the interest of certain Officers, under the State establishments, to oppose an increase of Federal