The Rhode-Island American, and general advertiser — Providence [R.I.], 1810-09-18 00:00:00, page 2

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hh arrival ia Englan<Waf greeted pith at
' accumulation of Jies, caludhy, ttfota. and
insults, ««>t out from the Ministerial pir.
! des of London to try Ma teramer. and. II
i , possible, irritate his sensibility; We n*vci
• heard that he was left for weeks at the
seat of government without any
catmn, not even those of civility, with thi
persons whose duty it was to enter into ne
gotiation with him. . We never heard <h»t
whet inyited to a prat official dinner, Im
L was associated with a man, who, a kind o
outdttst tff his own community, had beer
I sent out-of America for crimes committed
f Sgninst the government of that country—
Still lew have we heard that when he dk
enter into negotiation, the grossest charge!
of ill faith; were brought against hie gov
ernment, that he was reduced to thi
alternative of rebutting them with spirii
and msalaiw. Ll of submitting to their
' grith a alienness of which we hope no Ame
rican wilt be ever guilty. t
■ < Had k been the object of the“ Aorioure-
3/c” or dishonour a bl*-writar in the Intelli
gencer tn enlighten the publick mind, he
night have informed us of the incessant at
tempts made by Mr. Madison and hit sa
tellites to keep alive a spirit of irritation
against Greatdgritain ; ofotheir evasion ol
•very attempt made by th« British Minis
ter to arrive at tlhns of woocidation ; ol
- their refusal to exchange full power with
him when called upon so to do. We should
have heard something too of the inventions
of March last to influence the impending
elections; the lie* propagated in ministe
riallettere about Mr. Jackson's disgrace,
the sending o| -a Minister of rank and ta
lents, the conclusion of a treaty, &c. We
should botold that even now, when these
lie* are exploded, and laughed at by every
school-boy, the Secretary of State does not
scruple still to talk of a Minister of rank
and talents coming out in the winter; even
dow, when so little regard is paid to him,
4 that the gentleman, pho is, on Mr. Jack
son’s recall, sent out as Charge d?
does not think it worth while to move to
the seat of government, where we see by
the papers that the Secretary of State late
ly went in expectation of receiving him
We do, indeed, hear from the ministerial
agents, that Mr. J’inkney threatened, io
case Mr. Morier Warne here, to revenge
himself and his employer* by withdrawing
from the Court of London. But we hear
also-tbat he and his employers were laugh
ed at for the threat, and that Mr. Morier,
set out a few days afterwards ; a* he 1* ar
rived here with no other rank thaa that of
Charge d'Affitires, but with talents enough,
we hope, to discriminate between truth andl
falsehood, between the shuffling of * pettiJ
fogger and the plain dealing of an honesri
and upright statesman. That Mr. Jacluofl
Will one 4*7 have a successor we may
lieve from the magnanimity of the British
government, and, if he be a man of rank
and talents, we shall like him the better for
it But let us not be too sanguine. Will not
. England think her honour demands that
she should not send him till our government
are made sensible of the indignities that
they have heaped and authorized upon one
Minister, and of the courtesy and good
manners, to say nothing of the attention to
the law of nations, with which they ought
to receive another ?
For. many year* past there has been a
tyranny exercised in this country, com*
pared with which the tyranny of Bonaparte
is liberty and freedom. This is the tyran*
ityof party. Of all the oppressive and
crue) powers exercised in this wicked
world, the tyranny of party is the most in*
supportable to a man of an independent
mind ; and we are often astonished that
freemen should so tamely submit to it. A
party man has no will of his own; both his
body and his mind are chained; he can
neither hear, see nor feel for hhnself, eve
ry thin j must be doae by the leaders of
the party. But this is not the wor&t of it,
he is often forced to think and act in direct
opposition to his own sense of propriety
and justice ; nay more, he is undej* the
necessity of not only outraging his own
feelings, but of urging his neighbour to im
proper, foolish and wicked acts. He must
use all his influence to persuade his neigh
bours to vote for measures which he knows
to be unjust, impolitick and ruinous to his
merely because they are the mea
sures of the party. Men in this situation
are the men who are boasting of American
freedom. These are the liberty men of the
United States.—These are the men who
cry ap the republican institutions of our
country—who extol the right of suffrage,
at exercised in this enlightened section of
the world.—These are the men who are so
fond of the honour of the nation—who com
mit outrages that disgrace human nature,
and then deflare that they are the only
enlightened and Civilized people on earth.
My coantrymew 1 when will you exert your
independence ?—When will you rid your
selves of this most abject and most de
g. ading state of slavery f—When will you
have courage to act and think for ydutv
selves f— When will you be able to exrri
cite your right of suffrage without con
trol ?—When will you find if in your
hearts to tell the demagogues who lead you
by the nose, that they are but men, that
XROM THE NKW-VORK HERALD.
TYRdNNY OF PARTY.
■ ■ ' ■
led by them? z ,■ '«'/.'>• ?
25? ttje JBail*.
BALTIMORE, Sepumbw 10.
k FROM THE MEDITERRANEAN.
Tbs brig Blaochy» Captain Cotton, ar- I
i rived last evening, in 55 days from Algiers.
F A> embargo was laid on at AlgieWon the
i 14th July, in consequence of an Algerine
I frigate and brig being about to sail for
Smyrna; the brig Expectation,
I delphia, would go under their convoy* five.
I French privateers laid there with their sails
unbent.
The Blancby was sent from Algiers to
l Marseilles with the French Consul, tn con
i sequence of a misunderstanding between
’ the Dey and himself. Left at Marseilles
25th May, ship Henry and Francis, Wire,
of Boston; ——, Foster, of Beverly, both
under detention.
The Blanchy has brought' a fine Arabian
horse for Dr. Thornton, of Washington,
and some choice sheep, for the President uf
the United States. She also brings de
spatches from Consul Lear to government.
NORFOLK, September $.
, Yesterday arrived here the fast sailing
ship Wobdrop Sims, Captain Haynes, in
32 days from Lisbon. Lisbon papers to
28th July. In taking a hasty view of them,
it does not appear that any action of im
portance had taken place on the frontiers
between the British and French armies.
The report of General Crawford’s de
feat haa no foundation. Ciudad Rodrigo
capitulated to the French about the 10th
of July; the garrison were marched to
Salamanca as prisoners of waf. This place
is said to have made a gallant defence and
to have coat the French .10 or 12,000 men.
The British troops which sailed from
Halifax some time since, arrived at Lisbon
on the 28th of July, aMtat 2000 in number.
Markets continued good st Lisbon for
flour and corn, the former $l7 per barrel,
the latte* S 21*2 per bushel.
The French armies, we suspect, are not
in the force which they have been repre
sented, or the positions of Lord Wellington
are too strong to be forced. The system of
partisan war, which appears to be adopted
in every part of the Peninsula, is that best
calculated to barrass and finally to ruin the
invaders.
British force in Portugal, 27 to 30,(100
■h the transports and men of
[us, are sufficient to take the
necessary; and proceed to
wheig there cannot be a suf
raaiat him.
tele, we think the cause of
ugal not in so bad a state as
sented. The Lisbon papers
state, that the French have destroyed the
fortifications at Barcelona.
PHILADELPHIA, September 11.
Captain Remington of the schooner Two
Brothers, arrived pt the Lazaretto, in 28
days from Cartbagena, informs, that two
weeks before he sailed the people of Car*
thagena elected a President and deposed
the governour, whom however they ap
pointed Vice-President. Many of the peo
ple appear dissatisfied with the change.
NEW-YORK, September 12,
A writer in the National Intelligencer
is endeavouring, by Jeffersonian logick, to
convince the people of this country that
their salvation depends upon a renewal of
the embargo, or some other anti-commer
cial regulation. The authour is supposed
to be no less a personage than the ci-devant
President. It is to be regretted that this
food old gentleman does not rest. His
folly has already brought the country to a
situation the most degrading. The thne,
it is hcfmd, will not again revive, when the
people of the United States are to be cursed
with embargo and noo-intercourse laws.
The party in power having abandoned all
their chetnerical plans for the sake of se
curing their places of horitar and profit,
will not surely be so weak as to imagine
that odious restrictions upon commerce can
again be crammed down the throats of the
American people. ,
The reins of the American government
have at last been assumed by a part of the
good people of—Baltimore. Conceiving no
doubt, that as the President and Secreta
ries were absent from the seat of govern
ment, and no Congress being in session,
there was an interregnum, these sovereign
.people have began to exercise the sove
reignty (embracing the executive, legisla
tive, and judicial functions) w|fth great ef
fect*. of the Baltimore Whig
and Baitimre Evening Post, appear as Ist
and 2d Consuls on the occasion. \Vhether
the poster, which generally in-
The Queen Charlotte, launched at Dept
ford, on the 17th, of July last, is the largest
vessel ever built on the Thames. Extreme
length from the after part of the fife rail
to the fore part of the figure head, 328 feet
6 inches—breadth to the outside* of the
main wales, 53 feet 3 inches—draft of wa
ter abaft, 24 feet 10 inches—burthen up
ward* of 2278 tons.
tenant made some hesitation a* to comply
ing with the wi* given ih
understand that only OM«ur waeaUow*
him to deliberate. The sailor was*sent on
shore within the limited time, and the brig
has since moved further down the river.
The released American reports he was
originally Impressed, and has been detained
for id years in the British service, during
which titoe unmade 7 attempts to escape,
and was as often unsuccessful and severely
flogged, fee. He has for J&ytars past bee*,
accounted as dead by his friends, who re
side on the Eastern Shore. It is believed
there nie several-other Americans on board
the Netly, but their ‘‘ protections’* being
destroyed and their persons unknown, the
truth cannot be ascertained. The publick
irritation has been uncommonly great from
a belief that Lieutenant Jackson is the man
who barbarously and wantonly abused Cap
tain Rider, of this port, some time since.—
But Captain Rider being absent, and no
poshivp proof of the fact being submitted,
th* people have very prudently and pro
perly treated Lieutenant Jackson and his
crew with their accustomed hospitality.
Such to the current account of an affair
which ha* afforded much conversation this
morning
The democratick papers insinuate that
Mr. Pinkney had orders to leave London,
if Mr. Morier was not clothed with powers
equal to those which are exercised by Mr.
Pinkney. If this be true, Mr. Pinkney
may com* home ; for we are able to state
from good authority, that Mr. Morier comes
to this country only as British Charge de
Affaires, to manage the ordinary concerns
of the nation. He has no authority to make
or negotiate any treaty with our govern
ment. We think from the appearance of
things, that the British government are
quite content with the present state of af
fairs between the two countries; and that
they will not be in a hurry to send another
Envoy Extraordinary to treat with our
government. Indeed we see no reason why
they should. They have the benefit of all
the trade of the country, or at least as
much of it as can be useful to them. If a
commercial treaty was made, it is proba
ble that we should have some privileges
granted, wfoch might curtail some of theirs.
In fact they < snjoy all the advantages which
could result from a treaty, without any of
its disadvantages. Our ruler* appear as
little disposed to into a treaty as the
British; so that we may safely predict
that none will soon be made. The farce of
negotiation has become stale; and it is not
probable that it will be played again during
the reign of the present administration.
[lt was to procure the sailor's re
lease, but the Baltimoreans should have
applied to the Executive of the United
States. no mob law }
’* Sir—l htfd last this honour under 6th
May, since which I have been at Hamburg
and Stralsund. Daily experience evinces
that the continental system so called, and
which is intended to distress the commerce
of England, operates to the injury of real
neutrals only, and that British merchants,
having the earliest intelligence of the va
rious changes of measures which are adopt
ed by the continental powers, and having
the means qf assimilating themselves to us
by forged documents, conform themselves
to every Dew regulation, and are the first
to enjoy every market This is not the ex
tent of the injury to us, for they push their
collusive trade so unblushingly and to such
an amount, that, before the honest Ameri
can can' arrive in Europe, the abuses of
our documents are detected, and the true
and fa|ae are involved in indiscriminate
proscription.
“The treaty between France and Swe
den having provided for neutral trade with
the latter, the English were the to
avail themselves of this opening to intro
duce their goods and the very first ship
admitted at Stralsund was from England,
and for English account. The trade went
oo and promised great advantage to ourici
tUeos, notwithstanding this poweyfal Com-
The following is a copy ofa/etfer received
. at Washington, from an American gen
tleman, dated
*- - - ; ■■■ -—■ ■--
fctektavtovb • ftmette
mined feoroafton 4Vho willaay w« fete
te an anprftticfe government after tfefo ?
Happy la tea coootry teen the
ruftriof the people will not do their duty,
the constitution authorizes any portion of
the people ttf resume the reins or govern
ment. What glorfab* energy and taolu- I
tioo to mapifeste to this govemtheat ef |
law*! "
The next mail will no
further particulars of thia extraordinary
revolution. a I
rnoM tmb sai/riMone zritxziro »*tr.
NO SUBMISSION.
It having bee* ascertained te£ among
the seamen on board the British govegp
ment brig Netly, now tyiM in our river,
there was a native of Mar/mnd involunta
rily detained, th* people of Fell’s Point
prepared themselves to release him. AU
things being iu readiness, two gentlemen
waited upon Lieutenant Jackson last even
ing, and demanded the man. Theteieu-
•• Tohnincen, 16th June, 181 D.
MR. MORIER.
Freeman’s Journal.
SALEM, Septtebe* 14.
Questions for any oue to answer.
Was John Quincy Adam* appointed to
the office of Minister to the Court of Rus
sia to reward him with a convenient sine
cure for his apostacy; or was it to promote
some national object, which required his
talents and influence ? If the latter, was
that object to protect American commerce
in the North of Europe, or was it to co
operate with our friend and ally Napoleon
in his hostilities against England? If th*
security of pur navigation, engaged in law-’
ful and laudable pursuits, was the object,
has he in a degree to be expect
ed from the faithful employment of his ta
lents, or in fact has he succeeded in any
degree ? Do those of our citizens deserve
any commiseration, who, smarting under
the depredations of the petty pirates of
Denmark and Norway, continue to support
with zeal those measures of our govern
ment which encourage the plunderers ? Is
James Madison a French citizen ?
Some persons congr a tula t*r their country
men on the prospect and probability of a
tidity being made between Bonaparte and
September 14.
Captain Terwilliger, arrived this morn
ing from Cadiz, inform* us that Admiral
Keats arrived there on the 27th of July, to
lake command of the English fleet, consist
ing of 8 ships of the line, 4 frigates, 6 gun
brigs, 4 bomb ketches, a number of gun
boat*, and 40 or 50 sail of transports.
There were lying at Cadii, 6 Spanish ship*
of the Un*, 4 frigates, and 3 prison ship*.—
No new event* had occurred at Cadiz since
our last account*.
* •*/ ’ rl
During the federal administration, not
withstanding there was a government to
be put in operation, a navy to be built, a
corps of engineers and artillerists to be
raised, an Indian war to be honourably ter
minated, a sinking fond to be established, a
dangetou* insurrection to be quelled, fo
reign relation* to be established, a revenue
to be rafted, publick buildings innumerable
to be erected, ammunition and store* of va
rious kinds to be procured, and all the
other expensive items attached to a newly
organized government over a very exten
sive territory; notwithstanding all these
objects were folly and liberally attained,
the annual expense* of the government
during that administration fell short of
3,000,000 dollars;
but,
under the Jeffersonian administration, al
though the navy has been sold, and the
proceeds spent, as well as the aserf"re
sources provided for by their predecessor*
being wantonly squandered; although not
a single useful or honourable object has
been attained or uttemfited j although the
prosperity and honour of the country have
been sacrificed oo the altar of office-seek
ing rapacity, the expense* have annu
ally exceeded 1,400,000 dollars!
Extracts from the Marine Insurance Of
fice Reporter.
DEMOCRATICK ECONOMY!
Kt, ■ • • v
pfetltioo, fcr about six waeks, wb*fe» Intatr
teuence of the many abuses, still further
exaggerated th* repeats of a Mtofebeor-
Mg French CdMtft, <Mr. Hilifot •( tenia,)
the Empteur-of Trance in a rage appoint
ed and sent a Canns I to Stralsund, offering
tp tM Provincial R*gen*y tij* alternative
of a* Immediate and general atrert, cP th*
| re-occupation of the'province by French
troop*, ia «Kbt» ategtative theft
be no doubt of the which a W*ak M
defonedess ptbvfflF must
1 general asrest waHkid on-th* 10th instant
on all colonial produce in and
the la)and of Kuaen. It ftaald tette
Frgpeh Constrt bZprom
te MP to there any
reason to expect ttataew arrival* will aug
ment our te British Admiral in
the Baltick. Sir has de
clared,Shat no vessel can proceed to any
p*rt in tlflh sea, whence the British flag is
excluded, without a license from tfls gov
ffngent. , •
■fetflt remain* to be seen how this neyv act
RWnarttime despotism will be received by
the French EmptMfr.- Jt will reach Paris
With the news of the repeal of our nou-jsr
tercourse, and all our commaraMf kdvte
torerogp this quarrywaiting th*d«Jte
°f those impresilMujfafthe utmost solid-’
tude. *
•* Ihave not a moment to enlarge MFthis
&C.
r
The following is an extract of a letter
from an American Consul, resident in one
of the principal ports of
dated June 26, 1840.
" The present appearance of our grow
ing drop of groin ft truly gloomy. It is very
generally supposed, that, even should the
remaining part of the season prove favour
able, the produce will be at least one third
short of that of the last year, which was
very far from abundant. Indeed, the coun
try would have been seriously distressed for
bread, had not very large supplies been
furnished from the European continent, and
upon which it must very ikaterially depend
for many succeeding months."
* * . BOSTON, September Id. '
SOMETHifrG JVXW.
Our friends, the Norwegian*, though far
to the North, seem not wholly.destitute of -
invention. They have discovery! a new
cause of captaring American veadfits, never
yet suggested by any principle of maritime
law or common sens*.
A friend handed as yesterday, a letter
from an American in Norway, to his cor
respondent* in thia town, relating to the
capture of the brig Mary, Wood, of which
the following is an extract.
te AmricM
tobe feted tet oft hotrifcto W* ter- 5-
teataxingcalamity fees not ytot befaliM te **
Ttaferoesrf Rtepta*
fiefetowithblood.cmflagrowour dweUfoE’ 4
•ndrender this and hap
py costary a acen* of harddj*?-
wh«< fo ’ ?
* ifeMiltaoguMi. with , .
tabW&t wanton enk wtaiforiktee-
algpehave defied his wratfe and hi*-jfc
jMftff.nd would have guided our
bleeding m>d<hmfthed«sr
B*Mpa/fe' has’made it death for any
French maw *ff|pr djitai; to
England, is tech
would tte some method to clear the Uni
tod Sates of America of French spies and*
ungrateful bloodsucker*. . .
w "W
The British Bible Society ba* given 100£
sterling to the Bibl* Socjrty of Boston.
us declare war against Great-Britaih iMk
mediately. The sobbing us of several mffi
iofls, and starving and poisoning our
Mte, is * petty iarcen compared with *
So would Tom Paitte gay-
I stpproTOiy Tmp Paine’s friend Jefferson
iW* “ - ,■ ’■*
I gWhe French papers contain toe jlfewy .«£
rte proceedings of th* siege Rod-K
' Hgq. \
: "|<l a breach being made intewalls MAm. \<
shal Ney ordered the firihg to Ccask W
thus summoned th* toy* •
Summont to General if rra»iy,Guve rrrohr' a 1
<f
“ Sxa '~The summonses which I have •
previously had the honour to address you
and to which you replied in the negative,
have compelled me to resort to such formi- j
dabl* means as must convince you that the
cT?”’ ° f Whkh the fl overnn, «bt is coo- I
fided to you, must inevitably be soon re
duced to the last extremity. fc ig
Highness, the Prince of Esling, Command- J
er in Chief of the army of Portugal, who is I
present and whose honour and humanity V
hrewell ktiowif, orders me. Sir, to send ■
you this last summon*. I feel plea,ure in < I
doing juatice to your excellent defence 0
and the courage shewn by the troop, that 1
compose your garrisons but these con- J
sideration., alway. so valuable in the opin- I
ion of the French armies, are lost to you, v |
if you henceforth persist in prolonging a I
useless defence; and hi* Highness the I
Prince of Esfing, though with regret, will I
be compelled to treat you with all the ri- I
gour authorized by the law. of war. If f
you bad hope, of being succored by the I
English, you ar* doubtlte'by this time I
undeceived. Must you not In Mfr be coni I
vmced, that if such had b*M tfieir inteh- I
tion.they would nothin order to it* exete I
l^’M h i! ve ■ ntil c, “ aad Rod «go ‘ I
•hould be reduced to its patent deplorable - I
condition? Your situation, Hfc assured, Sir *’ I
cannot henceforth but become Worse. ’ You I
tave to choose between an honourable ca- ' U
pkulation and the terrible vengeance of a 11
victorious army. I request that you will ’I
give me an answer, and positively inform fl
me which you will prefer. ll
Accept, Sir, tic. II
u (Signed) NEY. 11l
“ The Marshal Duke <f Elchingen.'* 1 il
11
fort y- nin « year* service, I can- ll
“ The fortress of Qiudad Rodrigo ft not II
in a state of capitulation, nor is tbsre any II
d^o^ Ormed ** hl h * II
“ I cannot, therefore thin *. -1|
deswe your Excellency to continue your 11
operation 8 against thef l ace . J gl
self, from motives of humanity, and when 11
circumstances make it my duty, apply for' 11
terms of capitulation, after seedring my » -■
honour, which is dearer to me than life.
’* But as the officer sent by your Excel- > H
lency has given me to understand that your ■
generosity might go the length of permit- ' • ■
ing me to send despatches to the English ■
General Wellington, I will* accept that H
proposition. Until the return of the cou
rier to be despatched, things shall remain fIE
m statu quo, and accordingto tbe answer
of the English General, I shaH make your B
Excellency the requisite overtures.
I have the honour to be, &c.
(Signed) ANDRE DE KERRASTY."
Massena refused the request; and the M
firing commenced. We know not the dav B
it capitulated. , HB