The constitutionalist — Exeter, N.H., 1810-06-25 00:00:00, page 3

A letter from Gotteuburgh of May
2, received at New-York, states,
"That Tonningen, and the whole of
Holstein, as well as Spain, and Hol
land, are now under a strict blockade
by the English; that the Baltic is en
tirely filled with British ships of war."
Letters from Gottenbnrgh, received
at Philadelphia, state " That an En
glish armed vessel, after a severe en
gagement, entered a Swedish port in
distress—that she was immediately or
dered away—and that in consequence
of this treatment the British had de
clared the ports of the Baltic in a state
of blockade."
Extract of a letter from an officer
on board the U. States brig Ferret
off Charleston harbour, (S. C.)
dated sth May 1810, to a gentleman
in Taibot county, Md.
" Some short time past, there was a
French privateer came in here under
the pretext of being in distress-landed
upward of two hundred thousand dot-
commonly stormy, the ship damaged,
and crew exhausted the Capt. was
obliged to enter the Texel and was
there captured by aFrenchman. "The
Hero sailed under a certificate granted
by the Government, that the voyage
was undertaken for the purpose of
effecting a national remittance."
judge convenient." Mr. Armstrong
in his letter to Mr. Smith, dated Paris,
April 1810, says, I am able to inform
you, that on the 11th, inst. the Em
]>eror directed the sale of all the
American vessels taken in the ports of
Spain, and that the money arising there
from should be placed in his caisee
privee. '' He has also refused to
give up the Hero and has ordered that
the case be brought before the council
of prizes where condemnation necessa
rily awaits her."
The ship Hero was loaded with to
bacco and dispatched by our Govern
ment for the port of Tonningen, there to
be sold and the net proceeds to be
Appropriated to pay the interest of the
Dutch debt. The passage being un-
appear at full length in our next.—
They contain convincing proofs, that
)the Federal Republicans have always
had clear views of the artful conduct
and wicked policy of the tyrant Napo
leon, toward the United States. In
the dispatches, the seizure, confiscation
and sale of American property, within
the grasp of the great Napoleon, are
confirmed. Thefollowing are extracts
es letters from Gen. Armstrong, to
The following article, is stated, in
the Baltimore American, to have been
received by the John Adams frigate:
" Janina, Feb. 10—The English
have published at Janina& throughout
the ports of Turkey, information to
merchants, announcing " that the Otto
man flag may be freely navigated to or
from the ports of France, Italy, Naples,
or Illyria, by paying to the agents of
Great Britain a premium of 20 per
cent. Voyages on these conditions
can be fitted out in Turkey, the requi
site of 20 per cent being to be paid on
the granting of the passport, for an
ingress and egress voyage."
lication in this day's paper; they shall
—eee©^|^eeeeti
The U. S. Frigate John Adams has
at last arrived with dispatches from
our ministers in England and France.
The paper containing these official doc
uments was received too late for pub-
the Duke of Cadore—Letter dated
Feb. 21st, 1810. " The ministerial dis
patch under date of the fifth inst. is
arrived at St. Sebastian bearing an
order for the immediate transportation,
in small vessels, of all the sequestered
American cargoes, to Bayonne, to be
placed in the custom house there."
From letter of 10th of March. ;" I
Lave at length received a verbal mes
sage in answer to my note of the 21st,
nit. It was from the minister of
foreign relations and in the following
words." " His Majesty has decided
to sell the American property seized
in Spain, but the money therefrom shall
remain in depot." Among the dis
patches is a decree of Murat King of
Naples confiscating about thirty Amer
ican vessels, ordering the sale of their
cargoes. " The proceeds of those sales,
shall be deposited in a particular bank
to be hereafter employed as we shall
Dr. Logan
writes from London,." that it is the
opinion of Mr. Pinkney, the terms of
accommodation gone out in the John
Adams, frigate, will be accepted by
our government, and that all differen
ces between the two countries, will be
amicably settled."
Trade in Turkish Bottoms.
EXETER,
MONDAY, JUNE 25, 1810.
General Blockade.
tars—smuggled a qnffitlt, of goods,'
and obtained permission to sell other
goods to theamount of twenty thousand
dollars, to defray her expences in fit
ting out, which did not amount to
more than four thousand dollars—and
this too after this privateer had actual
ly plundered vessels out of this ' port.
Some time after she was ready for sea,
& had entered men here, they had pru
dence enough to order her out laded
with provisions, at which the captain
took umbrage, and swore he would,
have revenge, which he had taken.
He (the capt. of the French privateer)
wrote several letters to different cap
tains, or rather sent messages to them
by pilots, that he would let them pass
for five thousand dollars, otherwise
he would burn them if they came out.
And to crown all, the other day he fir
ed, merely for his amusement, a volly
of musketry into a packet on the Bar
-^-(Charleston Bar.) He got under
weigh from close in shore (for he al
ways lays at anchor there until he sees
vessels) run under the lee of the pack
et, and shot a gentleman in the arm
(a passenger,) which passed through
his shoulder, and then, with all the im
pudence imaginable, told the captain
he might pass.—-Instead of ordering
us out upon this to sink the villain, or
bring him in for trial,(for it Was mere
chance he had not killed four or five
of the passengers, as they were all
standing on the quarter deck,notex
pecting that the privateer was going
to fire at them when they were within
pistol-shot,) they let the privateer still
remain blockadeing the port of Charles
ton without even sending the revenue
cutter after her, which lies here with
eight guns and plenty of men, the priva
teer having only two guns & 70 men.—
The officers of the privateer would come
on shore every night at Charleston and
go visiting ; I have seen them myself at
the theatre. At length after a great
noise had been made, the collector sent
out the revenue cutter in persuit of her,
as it is said, but not until she had gone.
The privateer is now off, St. Mary's,
and I suppose will lay that place un
der contribution, or run in, and make
either vessel or town give her provis
ions at least.
The example of New England,
particularly Massachusetts, in the ear
ly and liberal provisions made for sow
ing the seeds of knowledge and moral
ity in Schools to which the poor as
well as the affluent can have access, is
in rapid imitation in many States—of
which New York has taken the lead.
The liberal provisions made by the
Legislature to establish funds for the
endowment of schools, is already
known.—And we have latetly seen
the Annual Report of the Free School
Society of New York city.—During
the last year, they have erected, at a
very great expence, a brick edifice,
120 feet long and 40 wide ; in which
542 children of indigent parents are
exhibited at one view, advancing with
stedy pace towards the attainment of
useful learning. The " Lancaster sys
tem of education" is spoken of as be
ing introduced into this school; and
is mentioned as having been adopted
by twenty other schools in that city ;
and in others in Philadelphia, New-
Jersey, and even in Hartford, in Con
necticut. Among the above children
there were distributed the last winter
305 garments, 151 pair of shoes, 274
pair of stockings, and 121 girls hats.
The expenditure last year was 16,129
dollars. The Teacher's salary about
900 dollars per ann.
To the Hon. Judge Roans.
I am sensible, sir, that those who
sustain the most important offices are
generally entitled to the highest con
fidence and respect. On common oc
casions they ought not to be address
ed by a communication of this nature.
My respect for the office you hold has in
duced me for a long time to let you pass
unnoticed; hoping that some wonder
ful change might take place to in title you
to the confidence of the people. lam
now convinced that nothing good can
flow from you, as the fountain is cor.
"How easy would it have been for
the collector to authorize the com
manding officer of the Ferret, or re
quest Capt. Champbell, who com
mands on this station, to send us out
and bring the privateer in ?
" Had this been a British privateer,
I do not think, in the first place, she
would have been permitted to fit out;
and had she committed the same out
rage, or even come to anchor on our
Bar, all the merchantmen in our port
would have been armed, the militia
turned out, and every old musket and
corn cutter in the state would have
been sharpened to gut the tyrannical pi
rate, and no doubt would (could they
catch her) have every man put to death
—Never mind, we are going on St.
Mary's in a few days—we'll bring him
too if we see him."
FREE SCHOOLS.
Maryland paper.
rapt. The lore of my counfry cam.
pels me to unfold to the world your
real character. I know you well, and
am determined the public shall know
you likewise. I should forbear ex
hibiting many things in your character
were it not necessary in order to dis
close the principles on which you have
acted. Were it not necessary to show
the people the motives of your conduct
and the tendency of your exertions I
should not mention that for some time
prior to your political career you were
secluded in your dwelling house in con
stant fear of sheriffs, and while thus
avoiding the course of justice, you
were elected to represent in the
State Legislature the town of Ports
mouth. When you took your seat in
the Legislature you thought your tal
ents adequate to execute any schemes
that might tend to your personal ag-.
grandizement ; accordingly you step
ped forward as the champion of your
party, harranging the Legislature on
every occasion ; and unfortunately for
the state, you possessed a peculiar spe
cies of oratory, which gave you great
ascendency. To accomplish your
plans, during the recess of the Legisla
ture, you devoted your talents, which
are exactly fitted for the purpose, to a
disorganizing paper in Concord, call
ed the New-Hampshire Patriot: and,
sir, you had the audacity to assert that
that paper was the only medium of
true democratic principles ; your tools
you employed, with the aid of a liberal
subscription, to circulate this vehicle
of political corruption ; and every
town In the state was infested with its
baneful influence ; determined to make
yourself the Oracle of the party ; and
in this you were successful. Your
primary object was promotion, your
means Were even worse than your en
emies could anticipate. Old musty
Town Records were examined to know
whether one of the Justices of the Su
perior Court would not arrive at the
age of seventy years before the close
of Mr. Langdon's administration :—
there you found a vacancy would take
place in season for your promotion :
that you claimed as your reward. Pre
paratory to this appointment you caus
ed a resolve to be made by the Legis
lature, declaring the office vacated when
the Judge should arrive at the age of
seventy. The vacancy happened a few
days before the close of Mr. Langdon's
administration; the only administra
tion which would incur the disgrace of
appointing you, and the contempt for
promoting others who have been con
victed of the most heineous crimes.
The preference was given toyou with
out any greater merit than that ofyour
promoted friends, excepting that of
subtiltf.
For a long time, sir, you have en
deavoured to restrict the power of the
Judges in determining questions of law:
This has been a favourite scheme with
you; by this you have endeavoured to
excite popular opinion against Courts
of Justice; here, sir, I see your pro
ject : The public ought to know the
spirit, which has actuated you. The
power and independence of the Judicia
ry, the only barrier against the subver
sion of our liberties, should be ap
proached with extreme caution. The
audacity with which you have invaded
this shrine, evinces the bitterness of
your heart against the liberties and
happiness of the nation. This spleen,
sir, you have against the power and in
dependence of the Judiciary, commenc
ed when you had your contest with
Simmes, while you were skulking from
the grasp of the sheriff: you obtained
a verdict for a large sum in direct op
position to the laws of the land ; and
you well remember, sir, the crocodile
tears which you dropped on that occa
sion, to warp the minds of the jury ;
and had you the qualifications requisite
for a judge, you would frankly confess
that your whining influenced the jury
to give a veraict in your favour. Had
not the court been unusually indulgent,
they would not have permitted you to in
fluence the minds of thejury by repre
senting the distress of your relations,
and that you were the " only oak left
standing in the forest," and because
the court in compliance with their oaths
set aside a verdict of the jury, you have
ever since endeavoured to make inno
vations in that Palladium of our Liber
ties. Are you, sir, entitled to any
special indulgence? Have you any
claim to uncommon privileges, that the
court should abandon their duty and
disregard their oaths? I trust in God
that the majority of our court will nev
er be assailable by any species of cor
ruption., What, sir, must we expect
from you, in your present exalted Sta
tion ? Do you still fell the same spleen ?
if you do, how would you conduct un
der similar circumstances ? would you
act regardless of your oath ? your hob
by now is to annihilate the power of
the Judges and let the Jury be the ul
timate judges of questions of Law:
added to your old spleen you now
have an additional reason; you feel
conscious of your own inability to de
cide correctly on legal questions anti
AND for Sale at the Exeter Book
store, a Letter on the Genius
and Dispositions of the French Govern
ment, including a view of the taxation
of the French Empire.
Also Dr. Parish's Election Sermon,
preached before the Governor and
Legislature of Massachusetts.
know that yon are a mere cypher In
your present exalted situation: you
knowthe Court treat you with con
tempt, and the Bar despise you. Could
you induce the Legislature to sap the
foundation of their liberties, and make
the jury the ultimate judges of the
law—then, sir, you might possibly
flourish with some degree of success;
your crocodile tears would flow boun
tifully, and you would stand an equal
chance to obtain for your friends,
verdicts, however contrary to the im
mutable principles of justice, and the
established rules of law. I say, sir,
when you attempt to make the jury
the ultimate judges of thfylaw, you in
reality endeavour to set all law afloat.
For what purpose are Judges ap
pointed ? are they to set as statues
without the least power or authority ?
Have you ever read the Constitution
of this State? If you have not, I ad
vise you to give some attention to it,
and you will find that the Judiciary is
independent of the Legislature. De
prive the Judges of the power of de
ciding questions of law and you anni
hilate the essence of the Constitution.
You certainly must know from sadex
perience, that no man can obtain a
competent knowledge of the law in a
few months, else you are more profoud
ly ignorant than your friends are
willing to allow. You must know
that twenty years close application
will scarcely qualify any person for
the important office of Judge, and even
the most profound with this prepara
tion meet almost insurmountable diffi
culties. Do you think a common ju
ry-man who never turned his attention
to legal pursuits, more competent to
decide? To admit the fact would be a
poor compliment to your own under
standing, as you with all your vanity
would not place yourself in competi
tion with a person of moderate legal
acquirements. You know, sir, that
were the determination of legal ques
tions under the controul of the jury,
there could be no stability in the laws
of the country, as every jury would
make the law accord with their own
wishes and sentiments. Yet, sir, you
wish the jury to be the ultimate judges
of the law. It cannot be from prin
ciple you advocate this innovation.
You entered the political stage under
such circumstances as to excite a sus
picion of selfish views: and, sir, there
was no great hazzard of loss on your
part, had you failed to accomplish
your wishes. Artifice and cunning
raised you to your present undeserved
station and while you are suffered to
profane t^ Bench the safety of the
people will always be in jeopardy.
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