The Rhode-Island American, and general advertiser — Providence [R.I.], 1810-08-21 00:00:00, page 2

fabltehment, which would hart saved the
’ J x»tfon av I"*'" 0 millHm erfdoHar.: art
M it respect* the n*vy. 1 °** rf th< * r
Uf1798 who thought we coelif wot build,*
support art •»•«» a ln lWa country,
without dutrerttig and oppressing U»e peo
ple very much; though our navy at that
liiae* situated as the maritime nation*
‘ were, did much toward# protecting our
' frjjwmrrce, art causing the American Mil
<. to ha respected *, art ; mafataii»>im our rank
art »t ending as a nation on the rtoan, art
I ' our revenue continued tn facte**®. Art
[ ' wlwn I saw that in WOO the easy in actual
service was composed of eleven frigates,
k twenty four ship*, art other etetalstor
’ rytog from thirty-tiro to twelve funs each,
hraklcs seven gallics ; x aed the whole num
ber wf eeaMtcn in actual service, exeta-
Mveof officers, anteuuted to npwards of
•rtee. toomwrt three hundred. and the
officers of every description to thirteen
j hundred and thirty-tv? t and that the ex-
penses of that year, (being the moat ex-
• pensive ya*r.) amounted to only three mi)i-
Ums, four hurtveA forty-eight thousand,
L seven hartted art sixteen dolors, art
three cents, (D. 3.448/16 3 OrtJhat the
I „ revenue Out very year, notwithstanding
all owrdiffirtlties, increased two mUliooi,
four hundred and seventy thousand, four
te< w hortrrtprt eighty-three doHara. and for-
Mj ty-Vworwats. (Z>. 2,470,483 49 Cfa.)) that
with the help of this navy our maritime
rights were established, and an honourable
peace effected:. art that in the year 1809,
we bud in service, only four frigates, two
‘ ships, live brigs, two schooners, one cutter
i art twenty-two gun-boats; the whole num
ber of seaturn, exclusive of the officers,
•mounted to two thousand seven hundred
art twenty three ; the officers of every de
scription to one thousand and ninety-five;
nrt that those few ships art men cost us two
millions, four hundred art twenty-fcven
thousand, seven hundred and fifty-eight
dollars, and righty cents, (D. 2,427,758 8a
CttJ and in the same jrear our revenue
decreased in the customs alaie, nine mill
ions, sixty-seven thousand, five hundred
- and thirty dollars,* (D. 9.967,530,) Hrt in
that year, having on the non-intercourse
Inw, our navy had nothing to do but to
blockade our own ports. And when I saw
that the expenses of oof navy since 1802
had almost three doubled, and its number
• touch the same, (except gnn-boats, an
swering very little purpose to the nation,)
I hrt no hesitation in voting for its reduc
tion ; and rather than to have such n navy
in such hands, maintained at such expense,
in the present situation of the world, I
would vote for hsannihilatioo, believing it a
curse to the natwm, rather than a blessing.
-The last bill that respected eur for sign
relations, and which passed into a law,
makes it the duty of the President, when
ever either France or Great-Britain shall
revoke their unjust edicts against us, to
put on the late non-intercourse against that
nation who shall neglect or refuse to follow
theoample. A strange kind of legisla
cfon indeed; that after the law had ex
r . pired, we should pot it in the power of
any nation, by any act of theirs to revive it
against another natioo; art that the le
gislature of the United States should have
no agency In it, only that the President
should be made the agent, or humble tool
of such nations to declare their will and
pleasure, to revive a law against another
q nation.
An application was made to Congress for
the renewal of the charter of the Bank of
the United Stites. Several plans were
proposed, some to renew the old charter,
others for a new bank- An institution of
this kind seemed to be thought necessary
to aid the. operations of the general gov
eminent; but the one that appeared to be
ffie most favoured by the administration,
contemplated the renewal of the old char
ter, for the stockholders to pay in cash
1,300,000 dollars; to agree to loan the gov
ernment a large sum of money ; to Increase
the capital stock nine millions of dollars,
which the United States were to take; art
to pay the United States an interest of
three per cent, for the money deposited in
the bank hfter it shall exceed three mill
ions of dollars, art have been in the bank
one year; art upon giving the bank sixty
days notice, that it shall continue there
another year. lam against granting ex
- elusive privileges to any persons whatever;
but if this institution should really be con
sidered necessary to aid the administra
tion in the managertmt of its concerns, I
should be in favour of renewing the char
ter, the stockholders paying in cash for the
renewal, what it may be worth, and for the
United States to have no further concern
in it, than any other corporation er indivi
dual. 1 have no opinion of the government
collecting money from the people to em
ploy in speculating, or collecting it from
them beyond the, exigencies of the govern
ment, to deposit in the Bank of the United
States fourteen months without interest,
•nd then to receive only three per cent ;
when it is worth to those from whom it is
collected, front six to eight per cent.; or
for the putpose of lying useless to the aa -
tjon in some favourite bank, which will en
able them to increase their discounts art
dividends to answer political purposes
♦ Not having the bill respecting this bank
before me, some of the facts stated may be
. As to measures of resistance, I have seen
nothing that looked like it except the sec
tion sent from the Senate to the House of
Representatives, in lieu of the fifty per
cent, duty. Which contemplated giving the
President power to use the navy of the Uni
ted States for the purpose of protecting its
commerce ; but tkfis was rejected, and the
bill lost, because the Senate would not
agree to the duty, nor the House to the pro
tection. I saw much to christianise the
good people of the United State*, by impov
erishing, afflicting and humiliating them ;
and but little to make them proud hy forci
ble resistance or effectual protection-.
It is said, that it is chargeable to the mi
nority that Great-Britain will not do us jus
tice, and that they were the means of
raising the embargo, which would have
had a wonderful effect, if it could have
been kept on. It would appear by the re
presentation of the friends of the adminis
tration, that the minority, however small,
have more influence at home art abroad,
than th* majority. What are the fact* ?
The minority have no influence at home or
abroad: They have no power to help or
injure any nation: All they can do, ia to
acquaint the people what the administra
tion are about;, art this ia what they have
most to fear. The majority have the whble
power and force of the nation : They have
the sword art the purse-strings to use at
their pleasure. Whenever they make a
law, they ought tn enforce it; and when
ever they cease to enforce it, they ought
immediately to repeal it. They ought to
be athamed to say that it can not be en
forced, because it wa* opposed in its fiaa
gage by the minority, and that they are
dissatisfied with it If a law is not strictly
enforced, it is either an acknowledgment
by those who made it, that it is in itself im
proper. and ought no\to be enforced ; or
that they are entirely incompetent, either
to make or execute laws. * Are the affairs
of Great-Britain at a stand, whenever a
weak or wicked ministry, have a majority
against them ? I believe not; tWir affair*
go on, art the consequence is, a change in,
the ministry., If our government cannot
make laws that they will exrente and en
force having the power so to do, it is ac
knowledging their incapacity to govern.—-
As a citizen and republican; although I
.nay oppose the fiaaaage of laws, yet I feel
myself bound to submit to art enforce
them, when enacted: Art if we should
imprudently get into a war, I feel myself
bound to aid the government in it* prose
cution, with my person, influence and pro
perty, to the last cent, against any nation
in existence.
focoMUfa rteeHfaf fatflubest <«y
rscoiteetteo, they are a* above stated. <
Whenever the iovWS exceeds the real
wants of the govwamrtt, instead of the ad
minfatratien rackfog their intentions to find
a subject to waste it upon, they ought to re
dure the duties on sugar, molasse* art tea,
•o as to reduce the revenue to the exigen
cies of the government, art let the people
, have their money to manage in dteir own
way; for It is with a government as with
an individual, who in proportion to the sum
of money he has by him, for which he has
no immediate use, and the facility with
which he can acquire more ; In the same
proportion, generally, he is idle and ex
travagant. And as the support of a repub
lican government depend* on the affections
of the pdbple, they ought not to be put to
unnecessary trouble or expense.
A* to the charge against the minority of
partiality to Great-Britain, this was intend
ed to excite your prejudices, but it is not
true. If the minority have been partial to
Great-Britain, they have been treated with
great ingratitude by her; all her measure*
have tended to helj> the ruling party in this
country ; and the measures of the present
ruling party of the United States have, in
my opinion, terted fa ruin the commerce
art prosperity of our once flourishing na
tion, and to give to Great-Britain the com
merce of the world- Art if the last ad
ministration, while fa secret conclave, had
made a treaty with England, whose ob
ject* should have been to ruin the com
merce art revenue of the United States,
art to have Increased that of Great-Bri
tain; art to have added 'to the value of
her possessions in this country, they could
not have done it more effectually.
'The minority are charged with' being
opposed to the federal government art
constitution. This cotnes with a very ill
grace from those who were against the
adoption of the constitution at first, who
have been mutilating it since it was adopt
ed, and, who were anti-federalists, and.
have endeavoured to render the name of a
federalist odious. As well may we ex
pect a Turk to turn Christian, or a true
Christian to endeavour to subvert the
Christian religion, as to expect these peo
ple to be anxious to support a federal gov
ernment, and the federalists to endeavour
to destroy or overturn it, being its found
ers and supporters, with President Wash
ington at their head. *
As it respect* Great-Britain art France,
and their conduct towards us ; Great-Bri
tain has injured us very much, hut she
could have injured us more ; though this is
no excuse tor what she ha* done.
With France we had a treaty,—the Em
oet'iur pretend'd friendship,—held out al
lurements for our citizens to go to his ports.
Ha has taken all Mr vessel*. (ar floe ting
colonies a* be call* them,) on the high auto
that He could carry home » art sunk art
burnt, (after pluadariag them,) all those
that he could not. All our veafals that
hate been aunt to France, to trade fa a
friendly manner, have been aefaad art
confiscated; thoee that were driven there,
by the act uf God, fa distress, or that have
been shipwrecked on their coast, have
abated the same fate: art even a vessel,
carrying property, belonging to the United
States,' to pay a just debt, could not escape
him. In addition to this, he ha* made a
treaty with his brother of Holland, fa which
hi* brother was compelled to deliver him
the American property io bis possession
for confiscation: And then the Emperour
of France, had th* impudence, in the face
uf the world, totell our minister, that he
had done us no injury ;—that* we were with
out honour or energy, art that our govern
ment had never complained of hl* treat
ment toward* us.
During all this time, what has been the
conduct of our government and it* agent*
towarts the cititens of the United States,
as it respects those nation* ? We have hrt
a letter addressed to our Minister fa Lon
don, respecting the conduct of the British
Minister (Jatkauti) published fa this coun
try before U reached (he person to .whom
it was addressed. We have had a letter
from that Minister to our Secretary of
State, which could not be seen by the pub
lick ; but was'made any,' and every thing,
to a'.swer party purposes. If he hrt time
to write an unofficial letter, and It Contain
ed nothing but the truth, why net official,
so that the whole nation could have been
benefited by it ? If it contained the truth,
and it was improper to it publick,
why vere a party peripitffid to *ee it, and
take extract* from it fof publication, to
answer electioneering purposes? It was
stated, that Mr. Pimknky fa that tetter
observed, that the British government dis
approved of Mr- Jackson** conduct, and
said he was in the wrung—that he would
be recalled, art that a Minister of high
rank art talents would be immediately
sent out fa his room. Now it is evident,
that, if that tetter did contain such infor
mation, that the fact has turned out other
wise: the .Minister’* conduct fa approved
by hi* government: he is not recalled, nor
ha* this Minister of high rank been sent out
to gratify the pride of our republican court.
A* it respect* France, we have not been
so fortunatttes to have tetters from our gov
ernment to our Minister in France, pub
lished fa this country before they were sent
to him, or to have very early information
from our Minister, either official or unof-*
ficial; or frotn Our government until it
has been published fa Great-Britain and
France, and many of the newspaper* in the
United States. Early last fall, a letter
purporting to be from Cxampaovt to our
Minister lu France, was published in Eng
land and in the United States, the authen
ticity of which was denied by the ruling
party in this country, and declared to have
been an English forgery, and from the in
solence of the tetter, this was generally be
lieved ; but after a considerable time had
elapsed and the letter almost forgotten, it
was then published by our government a* a
genuine letter, with some trifling variation*
in the translation.
Early this spring we had another letter
from Chamfagny to Gen. Akmstrong,
published in'Great-Britain, France and the
United State*, in language still more inso
lent and Indecorous. This was also passed
off upon the people as a forgery, and from
its contents gained general belief. But af
ter the minority hud in vain tried to get
sight of it, art after Congress had adjourn
ed, it was then published as a genuine tetter,
with the very manly art dignified answer
of our Minister. This last tetter of the
French Minister, seemed to complete the
measure of our humiliation and degradation.
Now if our government have not pub
lished every little thing that would tend to
excite resentment against Great-Britain,
and kept from the people their real situa
tion as it respects France, then have they
not been partial to France! Of this you
must judge for yourselves.
At any rafe certainly has an un
common fatality attended* ail our informa
tion from France; the fault cannot be. in
our Minister ; it would have been criminal
in him to the highest degree, to have kept
back information so important. On whom
then does it rest t We have had an expen
sive navy, that ha* had little other busi
ness to do but to be employed a* despatch
vessels. How then dots it happen that
"those insolent letters /rom Chamfagny
should be published in every part of the
United States, art the authenticity of them
denied, before they had reached the office
of the Secretory of State ? Or if they hud
arrived why had they nut have been pub
lished,' that th* citizens of the United
States could have known our real situatfon
with France, that they might have guarded
themselves accordingly.
C To be concluded in our next.)
Tnf. English afonp of war Snap, Csptafa
Barclay, anchored yesterday aftenroep at
NEW-YORK, Auguri 16.
to*
Don Thomas StclVgxton, hisCatho
licfc Majesty’s Consul for the State of
New-York, having received a copy of the
following Royal Order, hereby communi
cates the same, to all whom it may con
certvfor their government and information.
•• The King, and in bis Royal name, the
Council of Regency of the Kingdoms of
Spain and the Indies, ha* been pleased to
issue the following Royal Order:
•• His Majesty having ascertained that
Napoleon Bonaparte, the disturber of the
peace of Europe, is sending, art ha* al
ready sent spies and emiasartea from dif
ferent quarters, to the Ultramarine Span
-1 i»h Dominions, with the base design of in
troducing therein, disorder and anarchy,
since by force of arm* he cannot accom
plish hi* purpose* against those remote
regions: His Majesty also knowing that
the point of re-union for the major part of
these emissaries, amongst whom are some
denaturalised Spaniards, i* th* U. State*
of 'America, from whence. Under false
names and pretences, they clandestinely
penetrate by land into the province of
Texas, or embark for other possessions of
Spain* has decreed, and docs hereby de- 1
cree, that no Spaniard or foreigner, of
what rank or nation soever, or under any
pretext whatever, shall enter or land io
any port of those dominions, unless they
present authentick document* and pass
port* granted by the legitimate authorities,
resident in the places from which they
proceed,. fa the name of our sovereign
Lord Ferdinand the 7th; which must
establish, in a manner to remove every
doubt, the identity of their persons, and
'the object of their voyage: That the Vice-
Kings, Govemours, or -other authorities,
both civil and military, of the aforesaid
dominions, observe, and cause to be invio
lably observed, an exact compliance with
this Sovereign determination: That if, by
any of those incidents, which cannot al
ways be prevented, any emissaries, or
French spies, should effect a landing, or
otherwise penetrate into any of those poa
se*sions, a brief and summary trial shall
be immediately instituted, art capital pun
ishment inflicted, without the necessity of
further consulting hi* Majesty thereon;
and in like manner proceed to the confis
cation of the cargo art vessel, fa which
the said spies or emissaries were intro
duced, without respect to the nation they
may belong to, for the sole act of admitting
on board, person* who have not the requi
site permissions granted by the legitimate
authorities, in the name of Ferdinand the
7th; even should they be native born sub
ject* of these dominions.”
Manuel Rodrigues Atemany Pen*, ha*
been appruhbbded x* • *py, »t Havana,
tried art ordered to be executed- We have
seen a letter from Havana, dated the 28th
ult. which states, that this person was about
the age of 27 years, of a respectable family
in Mexico— was some time fa Europe, art
there imbibed the vice* and villante* of
the French school. He was capable, and
King Joseph gave him a commission to pro
mote, all in hi* power, a revolutionary
spirit in the Spanish colonies, in favour of
France. He arrived at Havana about the
18th of July, from Norfolk; and as the
government hrt previously advice of him,
he was immediately seized' and put into
prison; and sundry papers, evidently shew
ing his business there, being found about
him, he was, after several' 1 day* examina
tion and trial, condemned.
tarty-Hook. fa
She has despatches frosh Admiral Bit J. B.
Warren to the British, Minister which
ware brought up fa a pilot-boat to this city.
This affair has mad* a great noise at
Havana—art the guilt of Pena was so ap
parent, that the sentence was generally
approved of.
A Proclamation was issued by the Go
vernour, exhorting the people, under pain
of immediate apprehension, to preserve
tranquillity art order, on the day of the
execution, and particularly to refrain from
offering either insult or injury to the un
happy criminal, whose misfortune it was
to forget the sacred principles of patriot
ism, and unite with the enemies of hi*
country. I
From our Correafiondent at BjurjMons.
We have received regular files of French
papers to the fifth of Jdne, and have pe
rused tetters of similar dates. A letter
from Bourdeaux, dated in June, gives a
gloomy account of trade ; the writer says,
*• 1 am hi France, and shall say but little
about politicks!”—moat prudent. Another
of the 30th of May, mentions the decree of
2Jd of March, M sequestering ail Ame
rican vessels and cargoes there, or that
may arrive in France, or countries under
her control; which the Emperour de
clares to be fa retaliation for the non-in
sercourse act. We have hrt some trans
lation* made for thia day’s paper ; but the
French files' ar* generally quite uninter
esting. We are assured by an intelligent
snd respectable passenger, in the George
Dyer, that no favourabfe accounts need be
expected from any quarter where the
French arms prevail. He account* for the
temporary safety of our property fa the
COhfSVLAR OFFICE OF SFJIM
Nkw-Yokk, August 15,1810.
FROM FRANCE.
Horikef Europe, theuMMffitffi ; 5
Bonaparte wasVrter, of ordering
troofffi from Use borders of Hoistefa,
mark,) ka. to Spafa; fa which fatter piaUe
he has more to encounter than was antici
pated. The gentleman alluded to ha* no ,
doubt of the intended “ fell swoqp,”' whfck S’
will sooner or later involve MB Amerfaan
property within Bte reach of
agents. Our short respite I* owing to the
fact well known fa France, that the north- \
era people will not execute bis decrees
•gainst American commerce, where there
is not stationed a French military force
adequate to enforce obedience. They cow- -
fidentially expect that such a force will
line the coast* from Gibraltar to Chmi
*tadl; that we cannot much laager fiad
safety in Denmark or Pruasis, any rooru
than we can now in France or Holland.—
Indeed, a* h is no longer ixasible to cca
ceal the Tyrant’* purposes, we find thu
French correspondence again going
the Aurora. See a tetter to Colouerths* . . *
ane from France, and believe kft|» that *
even hope has diaappeargdt ’Me candid*
reader will believe Duanes storj
cause we all knew it ifefore.
Traiuldted for the FtDhheL
CoNSTANTjXorLK, April 26.
We have nothing new from onr arpitet
on the Danube. The-Grand Vizier re
main* hi* itert-quarters, at Scbi
mula, art bi* inaction ia attributed to a
severe illness under which k* fobours.—* i
His life bring sometimes deepaued of, th*
Grand Seignior has hastened to send him
two skilful French physicians.
The preparations for war are immense;
as it is understood that t|fa Porte la re
solved not only to fight the Russian*, but also
to drive the Wfechabites from Medmm
and Mecca, which they still occupy. Thu
1 Wechabites, after having plundered tkMp
rive cities, greatly annoy the Mahomrifah*
in their Holy pilgrimage, and threaten th*
neighbouring countries. The Suite* b«> i
ordered the Facha of Bagdad, aad fret ’
of to assemble all their forces, art fl
march against them. Several vessels art
fitting out at Suez, and other porto fa the
Red Sea,.for tbe transportation «f troops.
Every thiog remains quiet at CMslantfao
pte; but bread continues scarce, art ex
tremely doat.
* * Oobssa. March 3. *
An Americas vetml has jest arrived
here from Baltimore. It is tbe first time
that the flag of the United States has ap
peared fa the Black Sea. Tbe Captain i* *
bearer of a tetter from eur Consul-General
art Charge d’ASaires fa Anoerica, M«-
Daschkow t for our Gcweratwr General.
As we have now an accredited dfafauietfas
agent fa the United Slates, we hope that
his mission will prodtffie the establislurtht '
and regulation of commercial. reiari<ms,
which wiH prove very advantageous tot
both'Couotrfcs. ’
August 17.
FROM FRjWCR;
The ship Despatch, Captalh Laffim, aji
rived yesterday from Bourdeaux, which
place she left tbe fa) uf Jun*.
We learn from the captain and
gers, that no favourable change had takew
place fa France relative to American af
fairs, Bouapayte still continued his hostil
ity to thia country. Mr Armstrong had
not yet left France—but was waiting thu
pleasure of the Emperour.
A few days before the sailing of the Do
spatch, Bonaparte waa at Parle, bis time
was principally oecupkd y 'th hie row Em
press, and attending littteU the cares of
State. A bundle of State paper* had been
sent to him at (be Empress’* private apart
ment, by tbe Due de Cadore, but he sent
them back unopened.
The Pari* paper* contain the particular*
of an affair, which had excited considerable
interest—General Saracen, an officer fa
the French army at Boulogne, bribed a
fisherman at that place to put him on board
of an English man of war, at anchor out
side the harbour, and succeeded fa effecting
his escape Up to the time of his leaving
Boulogne, Saracen’s conduct had excited
no suspicion, and he had regularly corres
ponded with hi* Commander fa Chief.
Mr. Robert Baßey, of thia city, came .
passenger in the Despatch, and Ha* dis- .
patches for goverameat Tbe other
senger* ar* foreigner*.
The Dortch was detained off Rochelle
by rear Admiral Scopford’* squadron, but
permitted to proceed.
Extract of a letter from an American at
Faria, dated the l9th of May,
*’ What does our wise and energetic*-
administration mean to do to extricate
themselves from the present disgraceful
and ruined situation, to which thejr have
brought our poor degraded, and unhappy
country, by tbeir partial, vacillating and
dastardly measures? The name of an Ame
rican has became a reproach and a bye
word among the nations of the earth, and
even the French themselves respect the
English, although open enemies, much
more than they do the good citiaeus of the
** most enlightened nation cat earth.” The
hand of violence is abroad and I would ad
vise all my friends to trust* no more pro
perty abroad, fcr rapacity iajovited to
plunder and rob co with impufttp
V-