The Rhode-Island Republican — Newport, R.I., 1810-12-12 00:00:00, page 2

[ The following remarks, from that excellent
printy the Virginia Argus, are, o use
comimon phrase, quite * pas to the purpose
We doubt it cven the moon struck Jemny
Lliioty with all his ligrheas of I'rench Infla
ence, can geL over them, without moeking
wey faces. * Tne existence of Gallick In
fuance, in this country, has long since
beca proved 1o be a mere chimera—while
every visioyg Mun, furnishes some new proof
of wn nndue inffuance exercised by Britain
in the United Swstes.] - [lnd. Whg.
We hear much abowt Freach spies, and if
there be any such.*working injury to the U
pited States,we heartily wish thew, all hanged.
But the croakers do not say any thing about
Liaglish spies. The reason ol this is, shat
the iuflnence of G. Britain in this country is
86 pi & vabiing withy particniar prints, that it no
longer depends on a system of cspojnage ;
and a ceriuin cliss of men, the leaders ol ithe
foderul purty, do not think 1t at all a dis
grace to preter Enciish interests to those ol
A merica; Forerly, just after the close ol
our revolutiunary war, the very thought of «
B iii-h spy was odious to ail but old tories ;
wizd it wos deewned necessary to repel insinua
tons of that sort by declarations ol abhor
ronce. By degress, however, the new torics,
o presont (radery of the federalists, have bee
cone so strongly fixed in their attachments
to “mgland, that, forgetting the imdependence
sl weifare of the United States entively,
they speak through the medium of tuewr
‘utsy of every thing hostile to Fngland as
s’. tuis country were England. Thus brench
spios, which can only be French spies 1 re-
Laton 10 G, Britain are denounced, as il the
U. Sciies ous:;t'nt to be on their guird ag.ins
emissiries of that sprt, And so, indecd, we
oughit, if we had any thing te spy oulj but
the fatrness, tpopenucn, the honesty of
this goveriument, lays bare to every eye that
cnooses to look that wayy the resources, the
iiprovements, amd the delects ol the country.
T'nen, what have Frenchimen to spy ! And,
fndsed, new can fhiey got along in a pohitical
scase, seeing ihe d'ém-ence ol their manners,
¢ lunguepe, and dhpo‘ﬁtien from our ! The
cuse, however, is different with regpect to
Euclishmen : they glide in among us, as if
they were realty Americans ; and how are
they w 0 be deiected { Only by their sentiments ;
an | taat is slcn 4 vague, metaphysical mean
ol Jotection, thit it rejquires a great deal ol
roiocination, and so much vigilance, and per
severances to prosecate the counteraction ol
those <eniments with success, that it is not
oniv an aaaous, but a very difficult wsk o
preserve Republican doctrines 10 the ascen
d . ander the perpetual pressure of Britisn
mon o chical ideas, Tnis, then, is the dan
g lous exponage 3 this is the spying owi of
which we onght traly to beware. The pro
pgators of British acistocratical sentments
discover eur weak sides, aur predilections tor
mother Bataia, and they assall us inrellectus
a'ly. A Englishinan no sooner arrives ae
mong a 4, than he stides into society, and we
converse with him at once as a citizen : theve
it 7o obstruction, no barrier,
I'o mark the influence which the British
hive ohtained in the United States, we have
only to recur to the prominent ebservations
o! the federal prints 3 the open gowntenance
given to tne outrages of G. Britain ip the ga
z-wtes of that party ; and to the publick en
tertainments given (o English agentsand dis
cirded ministers. Let us reverse the picture,
for a moment, and see how it wiil lo’:&g Let
us suppose a minister of France in this coun
tey had openiy bid defiance to the President,
an! when his recall had been requested; he
kno viag how well he would be received by
certain partizans, should start on & journey
theouwgn the Uniony and should be feasted,
and toasted und flattered ; and all this in open
diy light " H3w would (he pation like the
procunre on the part of American eitizens
te a Mrench discarded winister. Not at ali,
we arc certwin. And yet it has vecured, and
more than occured in the cuse of Francis J.
J sxson. Tous, all concetn about the car
poncy of Beitish Spirs is absorded in the open
weor vl of British sentiments ; and the federal
p ints. warmed by the intensity of their owa
tloas i benadl of G Britain, arve so fur mad.
b griom themselves on British ground, an
ere e oench shion] < Uake care! B-mare !
‘I lis wouid be all very coberant in England ;
hia. is very absurd in this country, where w.
aosw nothime of French spying but the
danas s waere the Admtiistration stands i
o el o apkes, and wore it certainly does
noyt encoucage nformers. Oue laws are so
Boyoral, thwt the governnsat cannot order
Frenchmea out of the Union 3 and, if k
~aatd. we doabt bt that it wasid be nite as
&4 to noder o the Fagiiah 00, Al the
Jiiang 2t s, affai sin ,?l'!.uiOtl W 0« fingge,
Ttis dignity to concede, when there isstrength
to deiend 4 wrong, and in prdportion to the
stren th i t e dignity !==llive you never
Jearnt this 7 s there no one man who has ac
cess to you can teli you this ! Or, bave you
been told, and could not comprehend it ?
How is ail this ! Come, and tell your injur
e country | Come, and be honesi, and they
iy forgive you ! Put you right, and suffer
you ‘o remain where you are ! Wuy ! Be
fonest and you muy remosin. Nobody loves
those who want tq succeed you in power.
Nothing but hatred of you can make any
man wish 1o accept of them ! If you will not
conciliate America, for its own proper object,
be friends with her—to win Eagland, 1
you will not do justice to Irish claims, be
comse of their own proper merits, do so to
goin Logland !==But if you will not do these
thing s from some inotive, then Fangland must
g 0 1o the throne, to remove you, and that
with 4 voice the Throne will not reject if it
couid, and cannot it it were willing.
Tae act of the last session of Congress,
“ concerning the commercial intercourse be
tween the United Scates and Great-Briwin
and France and their depen lencies,” having
invited, in a new torm, a ter'minstion of their
edicty ag..inut our neutral commerce, (',npit's
of the acts were immediately forwarded (o
our Ministers at London and Paris 1 with 4
view (hat ity object might be within ibe early
attention of the French and British govern
ments.
By the communication received through
our minister at Paris, it appeared, hat @
knowledge of the act vy the French govern
ment, was followed by o declaration that the
Berlin and Milan decrees were vevoked, and
would gcuse (0 have effect ou the st doy ol
November ensning. ) hese buing the only
known edicts ol Frunce, within the descrips
tion of the act und the revocation of them
being such that they cevsed, on that dae, to
vioiate our neutral commcerce : the fact, us
prescribed by faw, was .nnounced by a proc
lamation, bearing date the 2d day o 1 Navem
ber.
THI embarrassments which have prevail
ed in vur toreign reistions, and so much em
ploy«d the deiberations of Congress, mase
It a primary daty, in pieeung you, 10 cominus
nicate whatever muy have occurred, in that
branch of our national uffiirs.
It would have well accorded with the con
cilistory views, ind cated by this proceeding
on the part of Frauce, 10 have exiended then
to all the grounds of just complaint, which
now remuin unadjusied witk the United Staes
It was patticularly snticipated that, as luithe
evidence of just dispusitions towards thew.
restoration would have been immediately
made of the property of our citizens scized
ander a misapplication of the principie of re
privals, combined with a misconstraction of a
law of the United Swuates. This expectation
has not been fuifiiled.
From the British government no commu
nicafion on the subject ol the act has been re
ceived. To a communication from our min
ister at London of the revocation, by the
French governmment, of its Berlin and Milan
decrees, it was answered that the Bricsh sys
tem would be relinguished as soon as the re
peal of the French decrees should have actu
ally taken effecty and the commerce of neu
tral nations have becn restored to the coudi
tion in which it stood, proviousiv to the pro
mulgation oi those decrees. This pledyge.als
though it does not veczssarily import, does
not exclude the intention ol relinquishing, a
long with the orders in councily, the pracuce
of those novel blockades which have a like
effect of interrupting our neutral commerce.
And this fariher justice to the United Stutes
is the rather to be looked for,inasinuch as the
blockades in question, bein;; not more contra
trary to the estublished law of nationsy than
inconsistent with the ruies of biockade for
merly recognized by G Beiwain herself, celid
have no altadgod basis ather than the plea ol
retaliution, aliez2l s the basis of the ovders
of conuncil Jaler the modification of
the oviginal orleres of Navemoer 1857, into
the orders of Aprily 1809, there is indeed
scarcely a nomiaal distncion betwsen the
srders an Pblockades. Oue of those illegiti
nate blockades, bearing daein Muy 1806,
naving been espressly avowed to be still va
recinded.and 10 be in efect, compreheaded in
the orders of council, was too distinetly brot’
vithin the purview of the act of Congress,
aot to be comprehended in the explunation ot
the re juisites 1o a complivnce with it The
Beitish government was accordinyly apprised
wy o minisier. near ity that such was the
Hyht in which the subject wus to be regard
ed. k ",
On the other important subjects depend
ing between the U. States and twe governs
ment, no pro(‘r?r has been m.le, from
Nu.c @ early satislactory result can be
reiledoa, - - * ‘
10 wils new porture of our relavions with
The President oi the United States this
day communicated by Mr. Edward Colcs, bis
private secretary,to both Houses ol Congress
the following
MESSAGE.
Fellow Citizens of the Senaiey
and of the House of Representatives,
On Saturday last, we received by a packet
from New-York, the Message of the Presi
dent of the United States. 1t was delivered
at Washington on Wednesday last, arrvived
at New-York in 27 hours, and reccived here
in about 20 hours from that city. e pub
lished it on Saturday, in an extra sheet—=but
as many of our customers have probably not
scen it, we think proper to re-pubiish it.
FROM THE NATIONAL INTELIGENCER,
seemn pretty well balanced. If there' be
French spics among us, there arc English
spies te watch "em : And this muoteal vigi
lance of the spies of the two belligerents
may be preservitive of our rights und inde
pendence ; for il they will only tell of one a
nother, and expose each others’ designs, we
shull get a knowledge of the manceuvres of
both, and be -enabled to prevent any ill effects
from them. At all events let us be impariic!
and not condemn the Drvil when we foste
his Impis.
PRUSIDLNES smIiSSAG L.
NEWPORT :
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1810,
WASHINGTON CITY, DECEMBER §.
EXTRAORDIN.IRY.
Among the events growing out of the
state of the Spanish Monarchy, our atteation
was impetionsly attracted 1o ‘the change, de
veloping itself in that portion of West Flori
da ; which, though of right apperiaining o
the United States, had remasined in the pos
session of Spain 3 awaiting the resalt of ne
gociations for 1s wctual delivery of them . The
Spanish authority was subverted § and a si
ation produced, exposing the countiy to ui
teriour events which essentially affect the
rigrts and welfare of the Union. In such a
conjuncture, § did et delay *he interposition
required for the occupancy of the terruory
West of the river Perdido ; 1o which the -
tle of the United States extends, and to which
the laws, provided tor the gerritory of Or
leans, are applicable. With this view, the
Proclamation, of which a copy is laid before
you, was confided to the Governoar of that
Territory, to be carried into effect. The le
gality and nccessity of the course pursued,
assure me of the Luwvourable light in which it
will present itsell 1o the Legislature ; and of
the promptitude, in which they will supply
whutever provisions may be due to the essen
tial rioats and equitable interests of the peo
le thas bronght into the bosom of the A%
mevicun family.
Onr amity with the Powers of Burbary,
with the exception of 4 recent occurence at
Tunls, of which an explwution is just re
ceived, appears to have been unipterrupted,
and to have become more firmly established.
With the Indiwm trioes, also, the peace and
friendship of the U. States ave found to be
<0 elizinle, that the general disposition to
sreserve bath continues o gain strength.
I feel pardcular satisliction in remarking
that 4w tnteriour view of our country presents
0% with weatetul proofs of its substantial and
incresing prosperity To a thrivig agricul
tire, and-the improvements related to it is
added o hivhly intercsiing cxtension of useful
m.nufwtares 3 the combined product of pro
fxssional oceupations, and of heusehotd indus
-Iy, Sueh, indeed, is the expecience of econ
amy, us well as of policy, in these substitutes
for supplies heretofore obtained by foreiyn
commerce, that, 1n a nationl view,the change
is justly regarded as of itsell’ move than a re
compence for those privations and losses re
sulting from toreiygn injustice, which furnish.
ed the gencral impaise required for its ac
complisiment. How far it inay be expedien:
o guard the wfincy of this improverment in
the distribution of i.bour, by regulations ot
theccommarcial taviff. 18 a subject which can
aot fail o suggest isell 1o your patriotick
reflections.
Whilst it Is universally admitted that o
well instracted peopie alone cin be berme
nenty o free people ; und whilst it is eviden:
that the means of diffusing and Tmproving
auseful knowiedge fori so small a propertion
of the expenditures tor natignal purposes, |
cannot presume it to be unsedsonsble, to in
vite your attention to the advantages of su
peradding, (o the measns of education provi
ded by the several Stues, a seminary ol
le®ning, instituted by the national legisiature
avithin the limits of their exciusive jurisdic
tion ; the expense of which might be defray
edy or retmbursed, out of the vacamt grounds
which have wccrued to the mnation within
those limits.
Such an institution, though local in its le
gal char.cter, wonld be universul in its bene
ficial effects. By enlightening the opinions :
by expanling the patriotism ; und by assimi
lating the prarcipies, the seutimemts, snd the
manners ol those who tf\i;;ht resort to this
temple of science, to be re-distiibuted. in duc
timey through every part of the community ;
sounrces ol jealousy and prejudice would be
diminished, the feutures of pational charucte
would be multiplied, and greater extent giv
en to social harmooy. But above all, a well
constiiuted seminary, in the centre of the ne
tion, is recommended by the consideration.
that the additional instruction emanating from
it would contribute not less to strengthen the
found.ticns, than to adorn the structure, of
our free and happy system of government.
* Among the commercial abuses sili com
witted under the American flig, and leaving
in Sorce iy former reference o that subject,
i appears that Amerigan Cltizens wre instru
in carsgl oA A Wellick i cadaved
".-
»
The commerce of the U. States with
the North of Burcpe, berctofore much vexed
by licentious cruizers, particularly under the
Dunish Bag, has latterly been visited with
fresh and extensive depredations. The meu
sures pursued in behalf of our injured citi
zens not having obtained justice for them, a
further and more formal interposition with
the Danish government is contemplated. The
principles which bave been maintained by
that government in relation to neutral coms
merce, and the [riendly professions of His
Dunish Mujesty towards the United States,
are valugble pledges, i favour of 4 success
ful issue.
It wili rest with the consideiation o Con
gress, also, wiether a p ovident, as well as
fair encouragement, would not be given to
our navigation, by such regulations as will
place on a level of competition with foreign
vessels, particularly in transporting the im
portant and buiky prodactions of our own soii
The failure of ¢ juaity and reciprocity ol the
existing regulations on this subject operates.
in our ports, as a premina 1o foreign compe
titors ; and the inconvenience must increase,
as these muy be muitiplied, under wore fi
vourible circumstances, by the more than
couatervatling encouragemenis now given
them, Ly the laws of their respective coun
tries.
those powers, the consideration ef Congress
wiil be properly turned 1o a removal of doubts
which may occur in the exposition, and of
difficuhiies, in the execution of the act sbove
ched. 7
Tke improvements, in quality, and quinti.
lyy made in the manufactory of cobnien ; - nd®
o' small arms, both at the pubtick armoriesy
and private factories, wuriant wdditionat con
{idence in the competency ot these rescurces
lor supplying the publick exigeucies,
These preparations for aiming the miliiiay
having thus lar provided for one of the ouj. cls
contemplated by tee power vested in Coae
wress, with respect 1o that grest bulwark of
the pubiick safery 5 it is for their consider®
ton whether turither provisions are pot requis
site, for the other comempiuted objects, of
viganization und discipline. To give to ths
great mass ol plysical und moral lovee, the
cfheiency which it merits, und 1s copuble of
receiving ; itis indispensuble that they should
be insirucied und pruciised in the ruies by
which thcy are to be governed. Towards .n
accomplishment of this inportant work, I
recommend for the considerution of Cone
gress, the expediency of wstituung & sysieny,
which shall, in the first instunce, call into the
ficid, at the publick expence, and {or a given
(line, cert«inv porticns of the commissioned
and pon-commissioned officers. 1 he instiuce
tion and discipline thus acquired would grode
uaily diffuse through the entire body of tie
militia a praciical knowledge and irompii
tuce for uctive service, which are wue o icat
ends to ke pursucd. Expevience ans Lot oo
doubt, either of the necessity, or the (e .y
of competent niilitary <kl in those roo us
of un army. in fitang it for the Ruul daticey
which it muy have to perfon,
The corps of Enginecis, with the Mithieer Acadios
my, are entitled to the carly attenton of Cot e s
The bu'tdings at the seat, fixt by luw, i e pio oo
Academy, ate so far in decoy, usnotro avoo ¢ hat e
cessury sccommodation. But @ revisior ot the oy
is rccommended, principully with a view 10 @ e
erlarged cultivation ana diffusion of the wdvian . on
of such institutions, by providing profescorsiage tor
M the neeessury branches of mulitary instruction, and
by the establishment of wr additionsl Acudemy at Ihe
seat of government, or elsewhere. The neins by
which war, as weil for defince, as for otience, arg
row carried on, render these schools of the niore scin
entifick operations an indispensable part of evory ades
quate system Even among notiors whose large
standing armies snd frequent wers wfioid every othee
opportunity of mstruction, these esteblishments are
found to be indispensable, for the due &ticinment of
the branches of military scicuce, which roquire s ree
gular course of study and experiment. Tu 4 governs
ment happily without the other cpportunitics, setii
naries, where the elementary principles of the art of
war can be tuught without wctuul war snd without
the expense of extensive and standing armies, Love
the precions sdvantage of uniting «n essentinl prepav
ration against external dsnger, with a serupuleus re
gard 1o internal sufety. In no other way, probebly,
can u provision, of equal «fficicy for the publick
defence, be made 2t so little ¢ xpense, or move com
sisiently with the publick liberty.
The receipts into the Trieusury during the year
ending on the 30th of September fasi, (snd cmounts
ing to ¢ight millions znd a balf of dollars,) have ex
ceeded the current ¢xpenses of goverrneni,inch ding
the interest om the publick debt. For the purpose
of reimbursing ut the end of the yesr 5.750.060 doi
lars of the principal, & loan, a 8 wutliovized by bow,
had been mugociated to that amount; but his since
becn reduced to 2,750,000 dollurs . the redaciion Le..
ing permitted bgthe stute of the Tieasury ; inwiich
there will be w balunce, remaining at the end of the
year, cstimated at 2,000,000 dollars. For the pro
buble reccipts of the nexi year, and other dcuo}s.'l
refer to statements which will be transmitted fron
the Treasury, and which wili eneble you 1o jud,e
what further provisions\may be necessary for the en.
BUINE years.
Reserving for future occasions, in the conrse of
the session, whatever other communications muy
clatm vour attention,l close the present, by cxpressing
ay reliance, under the blessing of Divine Providence
on the judgment and patriotism which will guide
your messures, at a period pmic%rly culiing for
united Councils, and inflexible (¥ertions, for the
welfare of our country, and by assuring you of the
fidelity and wiacrity with which my co-operation
will be aflorded.
In the mi st of upcertainties, necessuri'y
connected with the great interests of the U ne
itedd States, p' oo rnce recuires a conminvoneed
of our defensive und piccavnonery aiterypes
ments. The Secretvry of War end Sccretoe
ry of the Navy will submit the stetenicns ad
¢s mates which may aid Congress, in their
ensuing provisions for the land and nuval fore
ces 'l he statements of the lutter will inciuce
a view of the trepsfers of sppropriations in (e
naval expenditures, und the ground ou whick
they were made.
T he fortificutions for the defence of our ma
ritime frontier have been prosecuted iccorde
fng to the plan luid down in 18U8. 1 Le wuiks
with scmie exceplions, we compic ed, and
turnished with vrdnance. These for the Cuy
of New-York, though fur advanced toviius
completion, will require a further une nd
appropriation. This is the case Witl ¢ tew oo
thers, either not con pieted or iu need of res,
puil's.
Africams, equaily inviolstien of the lrvs of
Lumenity, sud in defience of those wr clcir
cwn country. The same just cnd Lenevoiont
motives which produced tle uterdicticr in
force sgainst this eriminal conduct, wiil el
less Le felt by Congress, in devisitg luriber
means of suppressing the evil,
The doouments accompanying the Presi
demt’s Message, as far as they have been pubs
tished in the Nutional lmclligehzr, conmsst
of a letter from Ihe Secretary State to
Governour Cliiborne, enclosing the Presi
dent's Prociamating for taking possession of
part of Flonidus ; wnd the declaration of the
Independence of West-llorida,
[\ao-Fork Mer. Ade
The U. S. frigste President, Commedore
Roaxrs, arrivea in this harbour under close
recl wop-sail, in 16 hours from Sanda<hook
Light-house. She would have performed
the passace in 14 hours, but fiom the Circums
stunce of her liying wo off Montaug-point.
\We understand she is bound to New-lLendon
for winter quarters. but put in bere, the
wind biowing fresh at N. W, wiich isu pre.
vailing wind st this sesson. and unfevourahle
forr makine the pussage af the bewnd, rem
Mentavy Semi.
JAMES MADISON.