The New Hampshire gazette — Portsmouth [N.H.], 1810-04-03 00:00:00, page 2

“importance of the interior navigation
-of our countr¥, 2nd the facility of in-_
tercourfe which already exiils between
the immense fiream Rivers of the
Welt, and the tide water of 'the Eas
tern fideof the continent, than a re
cital of the following circumstances,
‘which we have great pleasure in giv
ing to the public. - 3
On Monday, the 7th inst. arrived
at the office of ‘the superintendent 'of
Indian trade in George Town, a
large quantity of Beaver and other
valuable furs collefted at the United
States’ fa&ories at Fort Osage on the
Miflouri, and Fort Madison on the
Upper Millilippi. Of the 2000 miles
which this valuable cargo has been
thus transported, it was water borne.
the whole distance, excep?; about 13c
miles, to wit : down the Missouri
and Upper Mifliffippi to Saint
Louis, thence down the Miflitfippi and
up the Ohio to Wheelen in boats ;
from that place across to Cumberland
in waggons ; and againin boats from
Cuamberland down the Potomac to
‘tide water in the difli& of Columbia.
So much has nature done toward
facilitating this most important and
extensive conneftion between the two
sides of the continent—that of the
whole rout just described, no exertion
of art has yet been made to aid the
transportation but on the river Poto
mac—on which from Fort Cumber
iand to tide water a distance of about
220 miles, large sums have been ex
pended,in conftru&ing numerous locks
and considerable canals round the faks
and other works to remove obltruc
tions which we understand have been
completely overcome by the persever
ance and {fpirit of the company en
gaged in that enterprise, as relates to
the seasons when the waters are up—
and that compared with what has
been done, but little remains to be ex
ecuted to render this river navigable
at all seasons : when this shall have
been done, and the United States road
from Cumberland wefltwardly be fin
ithed, a portage from Brownsville to
Camberland only will disconnect the
communication between the Eastern
and Weltern waters, but seventy miles
of land carrage will interrupt a contin
ued navigation from the falls of the
MiT-ari to the capes of the Chesa
peake. Nat. Intelligencer.
The fate of Royalty.
TEXT |
« It appears, that of the fifteen monarchs
of Europe, who were tranquilly seated on
their throues in the year 1788, Gedrge the
Third, of England, alone poflcflesthe kingly
power The sum of this melancholy record
of royaly stands thus :—
One murdered, One aflaflinated
Five deposed, One abdicated,
One expatriated, Oae died a lunatic,
Two poisoned, One natural death,
- One sudden death, One fiiil reigning.
Comment on the above, from the Maryland
Republican.
1f there be a page upon the records
cf the history of nations that proclaims
a Providence dilpenfing retributive
jultice upon earth, it is.this confpicu.
ous circumitance. Letblind diviners
fpsculate upon future events ; it is
the duty of the wife-and good to con.
template the immutable laws of di
‘vine power in the certainty of real
events ; whoever wants faith in the
distribution of judgment among &t prin
ces and people, over nations and king
doms, let him confider the hiltory of
the last 2> years. The above para
graph, deligned probably to awaken
commiseration for the fate and misfor
tunesof those princes,has,unfortunately
for that eat, mentioned a period
vrhich the friends of royalty should be
carcful to forget, and recalled the re
colle&ion of events which they should
never name. It was at the time alluded
to,and it was the very monarchs whose
remarkable fate is thus recorded, that
formed the memorable * concerz of
princes,”’ than which the invention of
tyrants never conceived a plan more
diabolical, more uanatoral, more
formidable to the libertiesof man ! A
combination in its obje& so wicked, in
its effects so tremendous, i 1 its mo
tives so depraved, thut however fen.
fument may blecd.dnflice. fionouaoes
that no disastrous fortune can be too
severe a punishment for its deliberate
authors I And it would {eem by the
lesson of their fate, a truth, that when
mortals are elevated above the juril
prudence of civil laws, they are not
the less certain of punifhmeut for their
crimes. i
Government should be an assem
blage of powers composed for the pro
' teftion-and happiness of the governed ;
but how seldom do we find this ob
“je@ attended 10, by those who wield .
“the fceptre of autherity—what a fe
_condary, or rather. what a very re.
“mot= consideration, is the peace and
“happiness of the people to the /fpoil’d
- ¢hild who has' been educated in the
~belief that he was born to command 1
—who has beenaccuftomed to meet
with a servile obedience in every wish,
and who bas always regarded the
ol s b legisemic fuiti?
to vitiate the heart ; hence it happens,
‘that the authority invested in govern
ment for ufefgl purposes, becomes
abused to ambitions ones ; and that
which fhonld be a blefling, is conver
ted into a curfe—rthofe who fheuld
proted, are the firlt to oppress. Itis
the consciousness of these fats that
eternally maintains a contest between
the people & the tyrants which a blind
& a capricious fortune {o frequently
places over them ; unfortunately how
ever,the result of a very large majority
of inltances is too strong a proof of the
success of the fewin subduing the many,
and opprefled individuals seek in vain
to refilt with eff=& the great coliec.
tive force iaftituted or permitted by
themselves. D:{peration sometimes
produces a counter union of the p=o
ple, but it mostly endsin a change of
rulers vather than a correétion of prin.
ciples, and tha evils complained of
quickly recur. Hence there are few
good governments in the world; o
few that our own nation thinks itfelf
in poflcflion of the only one ; and how
soon would this be proflrated—indeed,
how long Tince would it have bent to
the farine of ambition, it the Penple
had not, in a constitutional capacity,
arrelled the arm of unlicensed au
thority ? This, then, is the Rate of
every single country, even when the
domeflic enemy to the privileges of
the people (for such is tyranny, or
improper power in goveriiment )—has
no other forces than those of its ~wn
nation at its disposal. It is general.
ly contrived that the people shall be
loaded with as many buithens as they
will bear—and he is the ableit
statesman in political eflimation who
can yoke them with the greatest dex
terity, and produce the most phyficd
substance from their services with any
given power—and the Community,
those for whose happinels governmeny
{hould alone be permitted, become, at
least, a mere matter of {peculation in
the hands of the prince ! But is refer,
ved for a m:jority of the “ fifteen
monarchs of Europe, who were tran
quilly seated on their thrones in
in the year 1788.” to devise a plan to
{ettle and quiet this reltlefs machine
ifito un-oonditional fl4very and abfoiute
submission ! Such was the obje&@ of the
concert of princes,a league entered into
soon afier the above petiod, by thofs
sovereigns, who mutualiy agreed to
lend to one another the power entruil
ed to them for national objedts, in
order that each might be enabled to
enforce his refpe@ive pleasure upon
the nation he governed. In other
words, they engaged co bring the mil
itary forces, ano the revenues of a/l
their nations, to a&l, when requifire,
upon the Peopls of any single nation,
and thereby ftifle all attempts to refilt
their royal mandate, however severe,
however unjust ! Sovereigns were in
furare to leg:flare at their own difere.”
tion, and no nation was to be at iib
erty to right its own wrongs—to le
gulate its own institutions, to limit
its own authority : but an enemy
within, always formidable, now afiilt
ed by enemies aszhout, was to become
sovereign and incontrolable ! Poland
was the irlt objec of their disposal,
where, even a prince who was anzinus
to concur with his own people in im
proving the constitution of the nation,
was denied that permiflion ; he even
forfeited his throne for this virtuous
and laudable intention, and Poland
itfelf became the frft vidim to this
diabolical concert of princes. France
was marked out as the second prize
France, just struggling for freedom,
and emerging from slavery and super-
Ritioß, was, to al} the pringes of Ea
rope, a terror as a Republic—~a rich
harvest for ambiticn and rapine !
France was invaded on every fide by
“the powers of this coalition.—Franée
was diltra&ed by internal enemies,
paid and foltered by the comcerz of
princes. France, in fa@, had already
been thared and quartered out to the
courts of the sanguinary invaders, and
tyranny; delighted with the profped,
shook his new and mighty chains of
power over opprefled man !
It belonged to Heaven itfelf to avert
b dreadfuFueftiny prepared by those
a despots for the world. It was surely
spirit of supernatural enthusiasm that
awakened twenty millions of people
to a momentary };nfe of freedom—to
prodigies of refifance, and that led
them to vitory and to glory. The
republican and the philanthropist of.
every nation, viewed the cause of
France as the cause of mankind. ~ The
hydraheaded concert of princes was torn
piece-meal by the heavenly guided
vengence of the very power they al
ready looked upon as immolated on
the altar of their tyranny, and the
above is the awful record of the fate
of its authors !* Sucliare the ways of
Providence ! The very nation mark.
- *George the third was probably the last
to aflent to the coalition ; he is the only one’
now on thethrone—and may be reserved
for the last punishment. . Our country was
Aaved from the iniquitye—may it be saved the
IRgEREY | T D R R T
- Extradt of a letter from F. M. Forbes,
| Consul of the U. §. at Hambarg, dat
' ed Dec. 20, 18300. ;
% Since writing the aforegoing, I
have ascertained that four {hips lately
arrived at Tonningen under our flag,
bhave been laden in England : the Na.
tive,capt Hill Philadelphia ; the Com
. merce, capt. [{arding, of Boston 4 the
Bevfeyy enfy Willrart, of New.-York,
and the Si§ Sifters, Capt.' Isaacs of
New.Yotk. Thislalt was totally loft
at the entrance of the Eyder, the oth
er three have been seized on my de
mand. I was placed in the most-em
- barraffing situation of my whole life..
« I feared (and many others interest
ed partook of this apprehension) that
such an exposure at 2 moment when
an immense American property in
Schlefwic and Holstein- was arrefled
under a general suspicion of qulluﬁori
and fraud, might have the most fatal
effe@s.” I never doubted the correct-’
“nefs of the principle although the ex
pediency of the exposure and the a.
Jarming magnitude of the refponfibi.
lity I was about to assume, occalioned
a pause of some days—the notoriety
of the circumstance, bowever,at length
left'me no alterpative,and I demanded
the seizure of the above named ships,
writing at the fame time direct to his
_majelly the king of Denmark, of
g B
Hatten,has already been ereltelt fatoa
‘powéi'.,vta‘\“\ﬁhiéb"? they have all success
{ively bowed in fubmiffiop, and which
in turn.threatens to deveur them all !
Whilst France itfelf, robbed of the
cbje& in which she "had embarked,
divelted of the virtite that should have
atchieved her freedom, and a prey to
usurpation, to ambition, and to vain
glory has becomie in turn a hydra in
the'eyes of the good. ‘
The final consequences oficrimes are
in ftri¢t analogy to that wife order of
cauics and effe@s (however apparently
interrupted by obitruéions of a tem
porary nature ) which is evident in the
moral governmeftit of the world, and
fully proves that vice will terminate
in misery, with a punishment gener
ally proportioned to its degree of
wickedness. _
~ RITTENEOUSE.
Irom the Boflon Patrist.
AN ANALYSIS OF NEW ENG.
LAND FEDERALISM.
The question is often aked—What
is New England federalifm ? No two
men profefling i's tenets would pro
bably give the famie an{wer or {ub
{cribe to the fame article of its com
plicgted €reed. Its doftrine was once
simple, iotelliglble ' and orthodox.
The support of our constitution, our
government, our laws, good order,
and those social virtues and fubltan
tial habits, on which our private and
national happiness and henor depend,
once comprised the diftiné outlines of
its theory and pra&ice. Oflate ithas
become complicated, and israther a
fubje@ of abstruse science than senti
ment. Like our foreign relaticns, it
is entangled with inconsistencies, {tha.'
dowed with doubts, and surrounded
with difficulties. To bring it down
to the comprehension of ordinary rea
ders, it requircs an Azalyfi, in the belt
manner of our writers. This we will
attempt.
Federalifis, Vike Daruel’s ilffumina
tifmy confifis of several degrees, the
lower of which are in Qi@ fubordi
natiop to the higher. I shall notice
but five of those degrees, beginning at
the highelt. /
1&. The torici or Brili/h rionarchifls
—"This loyal order never have and
never will renounce their allegiance,
to the king of the ¢ Jappy Iflcs”’ —they
confider our independence as obtained
by fraud—the people of America as
Joft theep, and will never relax their
watchful care till we are restored to
the fold of their acknowledged ffeph2rd
¢ed. The American Monarchifls —
who with for a king of Amert
can blood, and who from their
own joiat tock of wealth, wisdom and
virtue, are ready (whenever the peo
ple cpufent.) to furnith all the materi
alsdnd equipage of royalty, from the
king dowan to the king’s fool. -~ -
3d. The dnti Unionifisy or Ricklers
for a Northern Confederacy, to be com
posed cf the New. England Rates, and
as-many others as may wilh to be gav
erned by that beautitul system of po
licy, which has partly developed itfelf
in mewfpaper essays, pamphlets, and
resolves, already iffned from the bead
quarters of corred? principles.
4th. The difapointed federalilts of
the old icheol, who while in office were
{turdy supporters of ofdér and govern
ment, and since out, have proved them
selves apt scholars in the Jacominic
fehool of opprfition.
sthiy and laltiy. That pliant host
of indiferibables, who have attached
themfelves'to federalifm—fome for its
former fimplicity—{omefor its present
vanity—{ome because theyare told it
is the fathion—and others who pursue
it through all changes and seasons as a
profitable trade. .
: OLD SCHQOL.
. Extrac? of a l:tter from a mérchanrt in
t London, of the figjt information, Fan
mary 11, 1830, ‘1
“ The prospects for Amerfica really
| begin to wear a more plcampg aspect
| than they have done for a leng time
. palt. —The difmifal of Mr \Jackfon
| {eems to have convinced a great ma
~ ny persons (who before dou‘.\ized it)
- that there are limits to Americkn for
bearance —lt is generally perteived
by all but the Wek India merchants
and planters, that our orders in ¢oun
cil 2ffit rather than frufirate the views
- of the enemy on ou: commerce.
« It is confidently Rated that the
marquis Welleflev, whose refidente
in India gave him an opportunity of
. Rludying commerce on an expanded
scale, and who, I understand, was sal
ly imprefled with, the importance of
your trade to the Britith poffeflions in
- India, 15, opposed to the orders in
~ cauncil, and will use his infuence in
. the cabinet to have them ymihdrawn
- but he will be cppofed by Jeskinfon,
- Melville, and their partizans, {that is
-the curtain ministry) who it would
seem are bent on facrificing the rest of
this country to the Weft India interest
and the tribe of money jobbers and
' fpecunlators, who have lately multipli
. ed beyond calculation— [t remains to
- be tried whether marquis Wellefly’s
" strength will be {ufficient to carry his
: measure against the weight which will
- be opposed toit. There are letters in
. town from France, of the 2gth of Dec.
| which state positively, that whiilt Bo
| naparte sby every means in his pow
t _er determined to éncrafe and multi.
f piy the difficuities to our indire? (that
is' {muggling ) trade—he, at the fame
. time, has either relaxed, or inténds to
% relax his relirictive fyflem as it re
. gards the United States—There are
| various rum:ors afloat, with regard to
certain conceflions said to be made to
the United States by a convention
made with general Armstrong, but
that which is not donbted here, is that
the Milan decree has been mitigated
-so as that a visit at sea from our crui-.
' zers {hall not fubje& your property to
seizure, but theweflel and cargo may
! freely enter, provided they have not:
l * Should the continental frade be
‘touched at a Britith porr. <,
_again open 1o you, which 1 think js
' very probable, immense profits must
~ be made on {hipments of colonial pro.
dace—Tl would particularly draw yaur
~ attention to sugars, which .are high
t woods.—-I am of opinion that mar
and scarce every where~-allp, dye
; kets in the north of Europe will be
very good daring the {fummer —~l¢
- wouldbe wellto dire@ any v:fels bound
- to that quarter, to flop in the Britith
- channel for information—or if they
| went north about, they should call at,
- Chriltianfand, which is very little out
the way, and as a number of fpecula.
~ tors have lately established themselves
: there might perthaps find @ good of.
~fer for their cargoes without iucorring
risk or the expence incident to delay
in going further.” LR e
We find by a Paris paper, that among
the presentations to the Emperor Napoleon
on the 15th November last, was*¢ Count de
Paucen, Envoy cxtraordinary and Minister
Plenipotentiary from Russia tothe United
“States of America.” o
, Y Saniwer-as
yet, nor can it bg‘ farefeen what has.
been in Copenhagety or what will be in
Paris, the «ff:& cf tlliis unfortunate oc
curreace. {nany 4vent, [am strong
I.®the convidtion of 42y own reQitude,
and supported by this opinion of gen
eral Armflirong, and the unanimous
approbation of the réi*"pe&ablc body of
American merchdnts who represented
the large property’ ;immediately at
ﬂak“e.” Nt Intelligencer.
y T ——
The following curif us occtirrence
turned up in France fiyme time last
year. Several peifons taken on board
Britih ships in the cazacity of cap
tains, chief mates, and { 1 one intance
the surgeon of a Britith, frigate cap
tured by the French ; liad claimed to
be Americans. The T ench govern
ment had formed a rule to this effe&,
“any person takzn on b4'ard an Eng
“lith ship when in the {& vice of that
“ {hipis to be regarded ig all refpeéls
“asan Englithman.” Notwithßand
ing this rule, general Arjnßiong suc
ceeded in obtaining an ofder for the
reieafe of 103 of them. IDrders were
sent to the depots where they had
been detained ; there had been 15 of
them at Valeucienaes, but'on the ar
rival of the order, th=ie were found
three, to wit, Fames Greatrﬁmd, anmes
Neal and Hensy Lennan, i‘éﬁ() {‘md
that the other tweive Hhad volun.
teered | and through the agency
of I. C DParnct entered on board
Llrench privateers ! The. other three
declared they also would have volun.
teered had they not families in Amer
ica, and wifked to go home, for if sent
to England their conditicn would be
worfs than where they were, as they
would certaialy be impreffad 6n board
some Britith thip of war which amoun
ted to imprifoninent for life !
CAurora.,
TERI RS, T 40, 11P 10. ST
- “It'does not appear, t 21t S
negociate with Mr. Jackson lis ¢a ofidered by
our-government as a fufficic \p2 calleforwar,
'r.or'gg_:) we apprehend th: ¢ bis « alrgiff)
from the country would be ;h'loug}t @ ; bur
it leems to be gainiag pretty . geferal belis fs
that the Amenican and Frenzh gov nment
have made up their differences ;and if so,
'we do not fee how this midai b (@-Gﬁ‘&i ngs
between peace and war, can’ ¢ kept vp
between this country & America A greater
latitude 'is said to be given by éßon"‘a"pargg,‘
both in imports and exports, .which was at
firlt reprefcnted as a relinquithment of the
Berlin and Milan decrees, but we apprehend
what is doac, is more with the vicw to em
broil us with America, thap any thing else,
and therefore not likely to tend so ¢1;. remo
val of our orders in council, which are the
great obstacle tg our being friends with A
merica. The firft imprcﬂion, however,
was, that therepeal of the orders in council
was a certain confcquence ; and had not the
fi. {t accounts received here, been upon a
Sunday, we have no doabt the effect upon
the market,in American articles would have
been very great ;—as it wwas, a considerable
feafatica was eXperienzed, which has har¢a
!jv yet fudfided. :
“ The quantity of American produce
knownto be coming forward is so freat, thas
nothing but the expe@ation of war, or an
embargo, will enable the markets to support
the prefent.prices, which in moll of tha
leading articles,yield a very handsome profit
apen what they can be imported for in a
circuttous chanae!; and the confleduence I€,
that seldom a day paficd without some fluc
tuations. ’ s
/The prices at Liverpool, Jan. 26—17 pa
dnd Cotton 6rit quality 21d.—Sea* Island
ordinary and (tained, .s. to gs. 2d.~mid~
diing and fine 2s. 3d to a 9, 6d. . Rice 30
t 0 913, At o
Full Confirmation
Lxtrad of a Letter from a Member of Congrd},
dated Wapingtory March 03, 1810. ;
“Toremove ail mifappreheniions as td
the import of Mr Pinckney’s letter, [ have
obtained an opportunity to read it at Iyige,
and pledge my reputation that the fol.
lcaring areits mateériai & fabtantial contents,
“ U'he tnterview which Mr. Pinckaey had
with the Marquis Wellesley, is stated to have
been on the 31tof Dec and three days aftep
the receipt of Mr Facklon’s difpatehes to his
government. The Marquis slated, that
there certainly could be no disposition ,on
his part, to render the difficuities which had
occured with Mr. Jackson, an impediment
it the way of a [uture good understanding
between the two goverdments ;—that the
difmiflal was utidoubtedly in some degree
U dumnum” * (an inconvenience) to the Brit
ish government, though he wauld not fay
but it was *“ damnum abfque injuria,”* (an ia
convenicnce withoit an injury ) He did not
fay any thing in vindication of Mr. Jack
son’s conduct ; but, on the contrary admitted
“THAT HE WAS IN THE WRONG
AND MUST BE RECALED, jut ina way
to fulject bim as little as poflivle to any further
mortification ;"* that if Mr. Pinckney’s
powers were not adequate tp a final ad
jutment of the points in controversy
between the two Nations, or it was more
desirable to conclude them at Wathing
ton, the neccflary inftruions would be
given * o a minifler of bigh rank and refpeclabil =\
ity,who wwould be fert out to succeed MMr.Fackfon* \
. *“ Mr. P, read portions of his infiructions
to Macquis W. zwbo Profiffed much futisfoltion
with the [pirit and tendency of themy and added,
that the sooner they catered upen the fub
je¢t of an adjustment the better it would be:
Mr. P. was requested to have another in
terview at Marquis Wellefly’s own house &
and was in the mean time'io prepare an
Official Note on the several topics which
had been agitated,—and to which a speedy
an{wer was engaged to He given—There
has been no arrival in this country from
England since this second interview was
holden,and this note delivered ; but we
may now daily expedt it, !
. %The above is, I assure you, a. faithful
traffeript of the fub®ance of Mr. Pinckney’s
letter 5, and whatever other gentlemen may
write from this place, | presume the corre
spondents ¢f the Hon Mr. Lroyp will nop
fay that he has denied such belag the sash,
if he has written them since the 211 t instant
~=becaufc he told me in conversation on
that mtorning, that the Sccretary of State
had shewn him those portidns, of the letter
which Lhave above stated ; and there isnct:
a gentleman in the opposition here, but who
¥ he will take the trouble, may fee the fame.”
* In these inflances, I quote the very words of
My Pz'ncb:ry’:‘ Lctter.
Datenal Legidature,
ELEVENTH CONGRESS—SECOND SESSION.
HOUSE OF REPRESEN'PAT}VES,
.. Mareu 2y, ¥BIO.
A BILL for ere&ing a hight-house ae
Scituate; 2 flone Columa op the spit of
sand at the entrance of Boßon harbor, &c.:
was read twice. §
Mr Pearfop laid gn the table amotion for
an nquiry into all the charges alkdgcd aw
gainft Gen Wilkinson. = s ‘
. The President communicated a return o 8
the Militia of the Upited. Siasess {oosad
géc” 8 oy : ud \ : X
é}?n”ﬁan"]zoz\w: DUTIES, LOANS. e
Mr Eppss communicated a copy of a let=
tcr addrefled by the committee of Ways
and means to the Secretary of bhc_'l're’afury,:
requefling information on the subject of
I.LOANS, and ADDITIONAL DWTIES.
And also the answer of Mt Gallatin,whith
1s long, and in which he observes, that unless
war is contemplated, it would be neceflary
to raise the f{upplies within the year,and
onlylcan a sum cqual to the debt paid off
He states that the Six Per Cents to be paid
off this year and the next, may be reloaned
—that Monies can be borrowed of the
Banks and Individuals ; and that Treasury .
Notes may be iflued, bearing an im:rc.ﬁ, and
payabie after a year: On the ful.))c& .of
Additional Duties he proposes to increase
the ed valorum duty 5 per cent. and the othe
er duties 334 per cent; and fuggefls, thae -
the renewal of the duty ony SaLT, would
produce Six Hundrcd_ThQ?i’and dollars a
year. The Public lands are stated to confti=
tute the only great national resource exclus
fively of loans and taxes ; but as an objeck
of immediate reverue, he doubts whether is
can be materially increased without a radi
cal change of the.prefent fyflem He also
suggests 't%lat should no ci‘tdit be given for
the additional dutics, or at most 6o days,
the amount of the loans ﬂg}mﬂlmfght&
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