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The land holder took an taiteraM Vn the
eoncems of the merchant jaho waa the par
chaser of his produce, agr the merchant,
•gain* connected hhnwlf with th*
the agriculturist, tfh depending on himfljh
great portion of hia export commodities,
and aa the cousumer of his importations of
foreign articles. Every thing was kept
alive sqi| in beneficial activity by the opera-
M , tiona of commerce. The relations of socie-
ty were perp* tnally brought into contact
under its influence, and the prejudices or
* Mcuiinr habits of any particular body were
' ffiiftened and ameliorated by being mingled
in one general mass with the manners of the
world. This contributed to liberalise the
opinions and sentiments of men ; aud .any
. exclusive pre-ein.rUnce of character whs
,<fireS*rd of its off naive qualities by the ef
fects of a constant interchange of the useful
and agreeable offices of the different mem
bers of society towards each other.
T-lw continent of Europe, it is decreed
bf Bonaparte, shall no longer enjoy the
benefits that are derived from commercej
and the spffft of activity must now seek
for theatres on which to -act other than
those with which it has hitherto been fa
miliar. . America and England must now
engross the remaining tra flick of the world.
The European continent taring excluded,
by its master, from any share in general
s. • commerce, operates nrt longer as a body of
trading communities. They are now placed
in the same relation towards the great sys
tem of trade as their respective interiour
provinces were with regard to the seaports
of their own nations. They will enjny se
condarily what they used to communicate
Gxnxral Washington was elected
the first President of the United States,
i The fktther of his country yielded to the un
divided solicitations of his children, and
•midst the shoute.of three millions of exult
ing freemen, took the helm of the nation,
whose liberties he had accomplished. He
' bad formed, amidst the*troubles of Arneri
and preserved, undarkened till the pre
sent lime, a character of a brighter colour
than could bo displayed by the most bril-
primarily; and without an energetick, vivi
fying principle within themselves, their
industry will languish, and all the advan
tages derived from an independent and ex
tended commerce will be lost In the cir
cumscribed range and the limited exertions
of a partial and shackled internal inter
course. .
We are now to look fur. an irregular and
inconstant state of trade for some time.—
Driven from its ancient and established
holds, it has not had time, as yet, to settle
in other quarters. It will be active for a
time in one spot and will then desert that
altogether and be transferred to another,'
and so on in succession. We have seen
Heligoland in Europe and Amelia Island in
America, enjoy u trade and assume a con
sequence never contemplated by those who
knew them ; we may hereafter see other
places, now quite obscure, rhe to still
greater importance than they have been in
the commercial world. It is impossible to
say where the diversions and changes pro
duced, by Bonaparte’s proscription and
hatred if commerce may stop. The im
-1 mediate effects of his system we feel, but
lb«fe are others to succeed them of which
pgMer himsdf nor any other man can pre,-
tend to divine/the consequences. All that
he knows is, that, by destroying the spirit
of commerce in Europe he confirms and
makes more secure his military despotism ;
all that we know is, that, this destruction
embarrasses os, and puts us to the necessi
ty of seeking for other than our accustomed
channels of trade. But, notwithstanding
this the commerce of the world, which in
fact is the Intercourse of the world, will go
- on. It is not in the power of a French
Emperour to destroy it. Asia, Africa and
America are left open for the benefits of
enterprise. The last is, every day, rising
in commercial Importance. Its southern
and most populous and richest regions are
about to be raised from their colonial in
significance into great independencies.—
They will supply resources of trade more
than enough to make up for the cutting off
of those of Europe. A new era is ppening
upon us in the events of the western world.
Bonaparte by his proggription of European
commerce will exalt that of America. If
lie paralyses Europe he will make us the
more important in the wurld. He may
prowl among the grave-yards of the con
tinent, we will enjoy the beauties and rich
es of nature that may spring from the good
ness of the benevolent Father of the Uni
verse. With the power of England, mock
ing any of his attempts at a conquest of an
inch of ground in any quarter of the Ameri
can wurld, and with a proper use of our ad
vantage, we may enjoy liberty, prosperity
nnd all the blessings that man can desire.
In order to effect this great good, it is ne
cessary that England should l>e Bonaparte’s
superiuur upon the ocean, otherwise his
despotism would rule over the waves as it
bow does over the land ; It is necessary,
moreover, that we should be governed by
an administration, wise, efficient and alert.
PefWy cabals and party measures must be
dismissed from our councils if we expect
any good to come from the application and
direction of the publick strength,
Char Ituton Courier.
reosr Tai tidihal atrutucAn.
sailed by all the devilish engines <>£ de
mocracy. Wasximctoh threw in all the
weight of his character for its adoption;
and though greatly contrary to his wishes,
was compelled, by the earnest call of his
country, and a high sense of duty, to be
the first captain in sailing the new ship of
state, Leaving his affectionate neighbours,
who with unfeigned tears, bewailed lite
departure of their friend and father, fol
lowed with blessings and met with accla
mations,' the saviour of his country passed
through hundreds and thousands of men,
women and children, amidst the bursting
cries-of gratitude from thesgi d, the widow
nnd the orphan, once more to save them
from horrours fast darkening arouud them,
and of a hue infinitely more black
dreadful than those from which he had
but lately delivered them. Ye foul defamers
of his name; ye jacobinick crew, who even
now, when his body has mouldered into
dust, continue to cherish the vipers that
were willing to fix their fangain his heart,
can you look on such a picture as this, and
feel no compunctious vhitings of con
science ? Ye Jefferson* of deluded Ameri
ca, can you view the Father of your coun
try thus surrounded by hi* love-weeping
children, can you view him in the most
affecting light, and grimly smiling, still
strengthen the arm that Would hare stab
bed him ? In the view of an immense host
of shouting freemen, he took the oath of
<>lfice, and retiring to the Senate Chamber,
be ably set forth before the Representa
tives of a nation, who had received from
his hands liberty more ample than was
to be found on all the earth besides, the
principles of policy that should anniinate
hh government. Fully impressed, that he
was addressing the most virtuous and as
well as the wisest men of the union, he
spoke to them in the manly style of honesty.
Believing they hkd assembled with minds
free from local prejudices and full of pure
zeal for the general good, he called on
them to conspire with him to make truth,
honour and justice, the foundation of the
new government. The pure and immuta
ble principles of private morality he much
insisted on, holding that “ there is no truth
more thoroughly established, than that
there exists in the economy course of
nature, an indissoluble union between vir
tue and happiness—between duty and ad
vantage,— between the genuine maxima qf
an honest and magnanimous policy, and
the solid rewards of fniblick firosfierity
and felicity ; that we ought to be no less
persuaded, that the propitious smiles of
heaven can never be expected on a nation
that disregards the eternal rules of order
and right which heaven itself hw ordained ;
and that the preservation of the sacred fire
of liberty, and the destiny of the republican
model of government, were justly consider
ed a* detfdy, perhaps as finally staked, on
the experiment intrusted to the hands of
the American people.’’ Such was the lan
guage of the Immortal Washington, the
first United States, when
addi and house of Repre
scnttfdves assembled. They
answered iwßn words glowing with love
and gratitude, blessing themselves and
their country, that the hero, who had safely
guided their vessel through the dark ti m
pests of war revolution, would once
more take the helm, to conduct them
through a trackless ocean, which thougk
more c«|m, was not perhaps less difficult
liaat pictures of LtaM. Daring seven long I
years, at the head of a small and shattered
band of ill-disciplierd soldier*, encompass- 1
ed with dangers and death, from sword, 1
treachery and famine, without hoping, nay,
absolutely relinquishing oil compensation
for hit toils, tpis dauntless man, whose like
we moat vainly hope to see again, encoun
tered, held at bay, and finally drove from
the shores of his country the fleets and ar
mies of one of the two most powerful em
pires of the earth. Hia country free, hia
labours at an end, and his ambitibu satis
fied, he retired to his paternal farm, to
spend the remainder of hia#dkys in the
peace of retirement. But dangers new
and unexpected, and as gigantick as they
were new, startled him from his repose,
and soon robbed his mind of those sweet,
quiet pleasures he had fondly promised
himself, in a seclnsioo from the turmoil
of the world. Amidst the bold bauds of
honest freemen, were mingled, (as we have
seen before.) a numerous body of licentious*
abandoned, fortune-crazed men, who hav
ing nothing to lUe and every thing to gain
by a change of things, were willftvg to
plunge the country into all the horrours of
a revolution. Self-preservation compelled
the States tu adopt a constitution, modelled
and advocated by the wisest and best ilB
of the nation—t constitution which
or dangerous. His conduct did honour to
these expressions of grateful attachment,
and the wisdom and virtue be displayed,
while iMttbHck life, served buttoincrease
the veneration and warm the affections of
the great and g<xxl- The good of his coun
try was hia ruling principle. Truth and
honesty were hit guides, and a stern integ
rity of soul, kept him Ann and undaunted
in the path of virtue. He was our father,
who cared most carefully for os ; and all
his hours nnd all his soul wrte devoted to
the establishment of our happbass. Yet
he did not escape the shafts of Calumny..*
stands firm and undemolished, though
A Faine, a Callender, * Duaae, wmute
nauetd and fosteretHy a viperous Jeftrson
raised <t»*ir black arms against hWt, and
shot their moat envenomed arrows again*
our Father’* name. Tho two first are gm.'
tn their own place. The two other g»oo
sters still live caressed and courted by Jaco
bin leaders power, and ala* by «<x
many well meaning bug, blinded men.—
The state of W» country is gloomy and
mournful iti<le«L" Sad are Our proa pec*
and nuwt fearfoily will they be realised, it
we refute to hear the deep*groaning vnic«
of . , ' TRUTH.
The schooner Salorna, Captain Burton,
arrived here yesterday from North-Caro
lina, a few days since fell in with the ship
George Dyer,’then 60days from Bourdeaux
bound to Baltimore, with upwaisisof seven
ty passengers. Was informed, that the
ship Ann, Prendergest, (if permission was
obtained,) would sail in about 15 dAys for
New-York, with upwards of 200 American
seamen,-being the crews of American ves
sels unjustly seized and condemned in the
ports of France. That Mr. Lee, our Con
sul at Bourdeaux, intended to embark for
home in the Ann, but had received a note
(who from is not stated) inviting him to be
come a French citizen .' which he refused.
That. Mr. Armstrong expected to leave
France about the 15th of August for Ame
rica in Mm ship bally j. but U seems Im was
still watting the Emperour’s permission to
embark iu that vessel. Forty thousand
French troops had lately passed thtpugh
Bourdeaux for Spain. There was no ex
pectation of a restoration of American
property in France.
Six of the George Dyer's passengers
were put on board the Salorna, and have
arrived in this city.
Kingston, (Jamaica,) July 14.
A letter from Carthagena, dated June
26, gives the following information :
The Baltimore Whig, speaking of the
arrival of Mr. Erving with important de
spatches from Mr. Pinkney for govern
ment, says—"lntelligence had baen re
ceived, by our government, several weeks
ago, that Mr. Pinkney was negotiating a
treaty with the British government. Per
haps the important despatches alluded to
contain it.”
*• Several changes have taken place in the
government of this place. The Governour
who wasAiierally disliked has been de
posed, as priqpntr by way of the
Havana, to Spain, to t ender an account of
hi» conduct. The Lieutenant-Cioverooor,
two assistants as a Council, compose
the Executive, and the Cabiido exercises
provisionally the functions of the superiorr
government- At Mampqx some distur
bances have taken place, but we are at pre
sent quiet. Communication o9the changes
will be made to the government of Jamaica.
The Cabildo have published a declaration
of the principles on which they act
Port Royal, June 14.
A letter from a Planter in Louisiana,
dated 7th July, received here, says—" You
may feel fotdkested in what you see in the
newspaper, relative to the situation of this
< Riot-tenths of the good people of
this province, are disposed to peace and
quietness, and if any turbulent fellows
should appear amongst us, they will be
'very roughly handled. From the commu
nications I have had with the leading cha
racters of the country, it is my decided
opinion, that they will not attempt to form
any separate or independent government,
but rally rooud and support the present or
der of things, that is, the old Spanish gov
ernment, and no other, until we know who
we really belong to.”
w ■ understand that Edward Livingston,
Esq- through yesterday filed
his petition, in the office of the Clerk of
the District Court for this District, Against
J. F. Lebreton d’Orgctioy, for forcibly dis
possessing said Livingston of his Batture,
while executing his functions as Marshal.
The damages are laid at 150,000 dollars.
NEW-YORK, August 7.
The report of British armed vessels be
ing off our Capes, (mentioned in our last,)
we suspect, is incorrect, as there have been
an ivals from different quarters since then
which have neither seen nor heard of any.
Norfolk Ledger.
Sir Alexander Cochrane has dischat ged
all the American seamen discovered to be
such, and serving under Impressment, in
the squadron on the windward island sta
tion. •
The Rainbow frigate, of 28 guns, Capt.
Wooldridge, anchored Thursday mnrniug
from a cruise. On the Ist current, Cap
tain Wooldridge spoke the Bulwark of 74
guns, the Hon. Captain E. C. Fkcming.
with two Spanish line of battle ships under
convoy, from Cadi* to the Havana.
The brig General Bhike, Matteno, from
Cadiz, htaind to Campeachy, having no
board 14, males, ft make and children, out
92 days, put Wv.o Port Royal on Thunday
being short of .provision*.
25p t|je JBailN.
NEW-ORLEANS, July 6.
August 9.
From 13ourdkaux.
Ou Tuesday laft arrived at Nontext
the schooner Union, Bolmes, for
Charleston. ««t
•fbc schooner Amanda, Rhodes, arrived
. t Montego Bay on the sth current in 35
jays from New-York.
A British brig from this Island bound to
St. Johns, N. B. was taken on the Sth May
Gy- a privateer, and burnt off the
reef.
The ship Monarch, Douglas, from Rio
Bueno; schooner Nancy, Price, New.
York; and brig Pax, Harper, Loudon, are
arrived at Falmouth.
Ship Plato, Captain Harris, has arrived
here from Tonnlngen, which place he left
26th June. By this arrival we learn, that
in consequence of the remonstrances of the
French government, the King had ordered
the ports of Tonningen and Ilusiim to be
shut against the Americans. The follow
ing is a copy of the new Danish Decree
" In order to prevent all smuggling trade
to be apprehended by the abuse of the
American Flug, between the Island of He
ligoland, occupied by the enemy, and the
neighbouring ports of Tonningen and Hu
sum, his Majesty the King has been pleased
to order
By the latest accounts from Martinique,
we understand that 46 American
were lying at that Island, principallyiaden
with provisions; We should be happy that
so seasonable a supply had reached this, as
the article of flour has enhanced considera
bly in price witbin the last week.
American property was respected in the
Danish porta in Schleswit and Holstein,
but it was quite problematick how long it
would continue so.
The passengers in the Plata report that
all Ameyicuu Vessels at Stetin were seques
trated. •
A Newport ship at Stralsund, and about
30,000 dollars value of the cargo of ship
Mount-Vernon, of Salem, were sequester
ed. The cargo was on shore, had been sold,
but was returned on Captain Flint's hands.
Nd account of any seizure or sequestra
tion at Koningsburg, but it was reported
they would not be allowed to sell there.
In consequence of the Danish Decree,
excluding Americans fipm Tonningen, See
markets took a start, but soon foil agth
from the anxiety of the Americans to sell,
lest a general sweep should succeed, and.
fears of the Danes to the same effect.-*
Sugar, high and quick ; coffee, Ila 13st.
dull; cotton, 28 gr.
It was said at Hamburg, June 21, that
the American property at Koningsburg,
Stetin and* Stralsund, was sequestrated;
but a passenger says, that the intention be
ing known some days beforehand, most of
the property was got off.
At Hamburg were only about 20 city
troops; a body of French were to march
in, as is frequent, to squeeze out a new con
tribution of clothing. fee.
•* That from the time this present Royal
Order shall be published and made known
at Tonningen and Husum, and until further
Orders, no ships bearing the Anrterican
Flag, shall be permitted to enter in said
ports and to discharge their cargoes there,
but such ships shall be ordered away with
out breaking bulk.
“ This Royal Order is herewith made
known (o all whom it may concern for due
observance of the same.
(Signed)
Mosting, Eggers, Jansen, Jensen,
Rothe, Hammekicks, Spies."
BOSTON, August 8.
Medical IntlitHtion of Harvard College.
The Honourable and Reverend CORPO
RATION AND OVKISKKRS OF HARVARD
CoLLtGS, have thought proper to extend
to Boston the Medical Institution, which
has heretofa e existed in Cambridge, with
a vkw to the more ready diffusion-of the
advantages of Medical ulucatioa- In con
sequence of this alteration, the Medical
Lee ures, in all the branches, will be com*
meuced, in the town of Boston, on the first
Wednesday In December: and besides the
rout act formerly given, there will be«a
series of Clinical-lectures, as a new pro
Considerable damage has been done by
the late rains to the roads and bridges in
some parts of our vicinity. The injury
done in the parish .of Northford alone is
supposed to amount to some thousands of
dollars. On Sunday, the 29th ult. the
Grist-Mill owned by Messrs. Benjamin
Maltby and Co. in that place, was al
most a Saw-Mill owned by
Captain Timothy Headley ; one owned by
the- Messrs. Lindleys; and a Fulling-Mill
owned by Mr. John Maltby, were ail car
ried away ; also a Fulling-Mill owned by
Mr. Calvin Mansfield, was considerably
injured. •
Rqyal Schletwic Holetein Chancery, ?
Copenhagen, 15lh June, 1810. 5
There is every indication that Bonaparte’s
system of plunder (which he nicknames the
continental tyttemJ will extend through
the north even to Petersburg. The Na
ples property was to pay the wedding ex
penses; this, to defray the increating
family bwrtheut.
NEW-HAVEN, August 7. •
SALEM, August 10.
FROM TONNINGEN.
* The 10th section provides the necessary
papers to be found on board a neutral ship, via.
* Sea Pasaport t bill of sale of the vessel, or
Register ; Bill of Go age : List or Roll of the -
crew i shewing that not more than one third of
the crew are British subjects j Receipts fur
Duties paid nt the Customs i Charter Party, or
8.1 l of Lading« Ship Journd of bgr whole
voyage. *
fesaorshlpof CHnlcal Medicine has be<n
recently established by the authority of the
College.' *.
In cojncNkmct with the intentions of thu -
govemoursM Harvard College: and also,
wit Ft he benevolent design of contributing
to the welfare of the sick poor, the Hon
ourable Boar 4 or -ovkkskb«s or tee
rooa, of the town of Boston, have opened
the hospital portion of the Almv-House to
the medical institution,*and committed the
care of the diseased to such of the medical
professors of the University, as have been
recommended.by the governours of that
seminary. The students of medicine will
therefore be enabled to visit the sick in this
extensive building, while a proper hospital
is wanting, and to learn the effects of the
most careful and approved medical oac
tice, while those, who are desiroty of* pur
suing the shidy of surgery, will have an
opportunity df seeing cases under the .direc
tion of the professors of that branch of in
struction, and of attending the surgical
operations which may occur.
To these advantages will be added thq
use of the valuable* medical library„estab
lished at Cambridge, by the munificence of
Ward Nicholas Boylston, Esq.
The chemical apparatus belonging to
the professors, is extensive ; and they also
possess an anatomical museum, which has
l»een collected with great labour and ex
pense. The combination of so many fa
vourable circumstances forms a reasonable
ground for the expectation, that this insti
tution wilt present to students of medicine
most of the opportunities for the acquisitions
of knowledge, that should exist in a medical
school; especially when these shall be en
larged by an increase of the number of lec
tures, which will annually take place, till
it equal that given in the most respectable
seminaries in the United States.
Buildings are now preparing in Boston,
sufficiently extensive to accommodate the
different branches institution.
17 EERS -
The foWwingwHßracts from an offi
cial copy of to Danish priva
teers, signed by of the King
of Denmark, and Copenhagen,
March 10, 1810:
“ Sec. 9.—As free ship constitutes free
cargo, thus, on the other t hand, hostile ship
constitutes hostile cargo.” •’
** Sec. 11.—As good and lawful prises
are to be considered—All such ships as
evidently belong to the crown of Great*
Britain or to subjects of his Britannick
Majesty, in whatever part of the world
they may reside. Such ships as carry on
a smuggling trade in, or from Great*Bri*
taln or the countries which are under the
dominions of the said power, by feigned
and forged papers of clearance as welt
outward as homeward bound, sail to the
above-mentioned countries from sue b places
wherefrom no clearance is allowed, or from
these countries to a place where no admit*
tance from thence is allowed. Such ships,
the crew of which with force opposed the
examination of the privateer. In the like
manner thete thi fit, that, notwithstanding
their flag it considered neutral at well
with regard to Great-Britain at the flow
ers in war with the tame nation, ttill eithtp
in the yitiantick or lialtitk have made
<(/ English convoy'*
■ '** 8k c. 12.—As suspected and subjects to
a further examination may be brought up :
Such ships as are not furnished with the
documents mentioned in the 10th.* Such
ships as have double papers or documents
that according to appearance are false.—
Such ships, from which papers have been
“ Sec. 9.—The privateer is bound, as
far as it lies in his power, to take and car
ry in for condemnation all such ships and
vessels, as belong to and are proved to be
the property of subjects of the crown of
Great-Britain. also permitted to
bring in for every other ship
or vessel, the Wfflity of -which not ac
cording to the 10th section* of these regu
lations is lawfully proved, or against which'
grounded suspicions may be formed upon
any of the reasons mentioned in the 12th
section. Further; He it authorized to
carry in all tuch thipt at may have flatted,
the Sound or the Belt without flaying the
duty ordered and which contequently have
no certificatet ; the penalty f being dou
ble of the duty orderedJ to be forfeited
to him**
“ Sec. 8.-— As we acknowledge as a*n in
deviable rule, that free ship constitutes
free cargo, we hereby OMt positively for
bid every cruiser furnhhßl with commis
sion as privateer, to capture any ship, be
longing to powers that are neutral or in
friendly relation with us, (whomsoever the
cargo may belong to,) provided the papers
regarding the ship or the expedition, are
iu proper order, and the ship has got no
contrabands of war on board bound to any
country belonging to his Britanhick Majes
ty, nor be under any of those predicaments
mentioned in the 6th section, as subject to
condemnation."