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o -BY AUTHORITY.
i oge 2 AN ACT - ;
¢ Forthe relief of Joha N.Stout.
B E 1T gxacrTED by the Senatewind House
x ' of Regrojirniatiwes of the United States
{ AW of America in Congress assembled, That
“the "proper accounting officers of the trea
-3 fury\ﬁc and tiey are hereby authorifed and
diredted to fettle the accouut of Johm N,
* Stout, keeper of the jail of Fleming couaty,
. in the state of Kentucky,and atlow him phe
* lcgal fees for maintaining George Barn aby,
- while in his coftody, as a prifoncr commii
~ ted'to the jail 6f Waid county by virtue of
an execution iflued from the court of the
United States for the district of Kentucky,
and that they pay the sum which may be
found du= to the {zid John N Stout, out of
any monics in the trezfury not otherwile
sppropriated. . = }J. B VARNUM,
E Speaker of the Houje of Representatives.
- GLEO: CULINUVON, Fice Prefideat of the
%{-ff‘.‘?{(}?s&.ﬁ@,@a“’ Dusfedont of thy Sraates. - v
: cbruary 14, 1810.—APPROVED, '
: .~ JAMES MADISON.
AN ACT ‘
1n addition to the « A& to regulate the lay
_ing out and making a road from Cum
berland i theftate of Maryland to the
fiate of Ohio.” &
BE it ena&lod by the Senate and House of Repre
sentatives of the United States of dmerica, in
Congress affimbled, That ip addition to the un
expended balance of the sum heretofore ap
‘propriated for the laying out and makKing 2
road from Cumberland in the state of Ma
‘vyland to the state of Ohio, the sum of sixty
thousand dollars, be. and the fame is here-.
by appropriated and to be expended under”
thicg irection of the President of the United
States, in mazkiag said read between Cum
berland in the State of Maryland, and
Browalville in the Qate of Pennsylvania,
eommencing at Cumberland § which sum of
fixtysthonfand doflars {hall be paid. out of
*he fund reserved for laying out and making
road® to the state of Ohio, by virtue of the
seventh section of aa ack, pafled on the thir
ticth day of April, one thousand eight hun
dred and two, entitled An act to enable
the people of the eastern division of the ter
ritory North weil of the river Ohio,to form
a constitution and (tate government, and for
the admission of such state into the uaion
on an equal footing with the original (tates
and for other'purpofes.” 1. B. VARNUM,
* Speaker of the House of Representatives.
e _GED: CLINTON, Vice-Piefident of the
United States, and President of the Senate.
February 14, 1810,—ALPROVED,
s "~ JAMES MADISON.
For the relief of Harry Caldwell and Amata
fackfon, Jeremiah Reynolds and Levin
4 JOQC’f oo % j -
BE AL :E'N/I’.CTED by the Senate and
= House of Representatives of the United States
of America, in Congress assembled. That the brig
' Jose ph/Ricketfon, owned by Heory Cald
" welt and Amafa Jackson. which onor about
the twenty-fifth day of July last, at Kingfon,
in the island of ]yamaica,,mok on board three
Refugees, from the Hland of Cuba with their
-domeflic slaves, fix in number, and landed
“them a: New Orleans ; and that the [choon
er Vidtory. owned by Jeremiah Reynolds,
who about the latter end of September last,
at Cutracoa, took on board a number of
French emigrants: from the said Island. of
Cuba, with ~their domestic slaves, fix in
number, and landed them also at New-Or
leans, which said veflcls were seized, to
gether with their efiects, and libelled, for a
violation of an a&, entitled ¢ An a& to pro
hibit the importation of slaves into any.
port or place of the United - States, from
and after the firlt day of Jenuary,in the
year of .our Lord, one thousand eight hun
dred and ecight,” be and they are hereby
severally relcafed from the seizures aforcfaid.
And the schooner Wolfe~ of Baltimore,
- owned _ahd commanded by Levin Jenes,
which veflel was {eized some timein O&o
--ber last, at Norfolk, in Virginia,on account
of having brought from Charleston, in Scuth
Carolina, to that place certain French slaves,
niseteen in number. without previously
complying with the requisites enjoined by
the ninth and tenth feions of the a&t a
forefaid, be and she is hereby also released
from the seizure.
Sgc. 3. And be it further enaéled That
all pefalties or forfcitures, which may have
beea incurred cither by the captains or
owners of said veflels, in confequernce .of
_the vi‘olat_ignbﬁany of the pravifions of the
a 2 referred to ,in the firft fe&ion, be and
the fame are hereby remitted.
T P AR 4
T Speaker of the House of Representatives.
.~ GEO : CLINTON, Vice P:¢fident of the
- United States, and President of the Senate. '
February 5 1810 —APPROVED, - i
! JAMES MADISON.
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W‘:‘WM&' e S R et ol eeeti iet ee A B e Ret i e MIIE LoT g S ¢
Columbus® difeovery of America,
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o Bueflioned,
- The chief thing that induced me to look
into avthers here mentioned, was my r¢ad
dng a small book in oftavo, and gave me
an account of a great nation of white In
dians withiu land from cape Florida, that
actaally speak Weip,
- It any of your readers yet doubt it they
may be better coavinced, by looking™ inro
James I:IUWCI;’S Lietters, vol. 2, page 71,
concerning the ancient Britons, and they
will find that Madoe an Owen, a Prince of
Wales. made two voyages from North Wales
to America, the firffdn the year 1170, which
is 316 years befere Columbus saw it. He
dicd at Mezxico, atd the following epitaph
was found cpgq?’&n on his tomb in the
Welih languages = -
¢ Mado¢ wifmip ydie wedd
lawn; ycnag Owen gwynedd
Ni fef%%fgamédw@ g
i dg mawr ondy micoeda
* Englifted. .
¢ Madoc ap Owen was I called,
‘Strong, tall and comely, not enthraited
With homebred pleasures, but for fame,
Through land and sea I fought the fame >
2. Sec the 3d and last Vol. of voyages of
the English nation by Richard Hackluyt,
student of Christ church in Oxfoerd, page
the firfl.
3. See Pagett’s Christian ography,page 47.
4. See the third and the last Vol. of Turk
ith Spy, page 202, letter No. 12, L e
5. Sce Punhas’ Pilgrimage, book the Bth,
page 899 :
6. See Broughton, who affirms that the
faith of Christ was preached in America by
fame of our firft Planters that preached in
Britain. Su
7. See George Abbot Lowe, Archbishop
of Canterbury’s Hiflory of the world, page
255,256, 257, who informs us that King
Arthur had some knowledge of America,
and that a prince of Wales firlt found it out.
8. Sec thg Wellh Cambria wrote by Da
vid Powell and Sir John Price Knight, trans
lated into Englith by Humphrey Lioyd,
gent. then you will find the reason that in
duced this Prince Mado¢ ap Owen Gwy
nedd to travel. .
9 Sece Sir Walter Raleigh’s History of the
World, and the words of the natives. used
as when they talked together—they fay
these and the like words, gurando, which
is hearken, or listen in Wel(h, a bird with a
white head they. call Pengwyn, the white
rock Caregwyn, arive®, Gwyndwr, and
there is a promontory not far from Mexico
called Cape Briion. ail which are English
words. and many more worgds in like nature
which does manifeftly thew that it was the
ccuntry that Prince Madoc¢’s people inhab-
Tred. AN -t Bgrea-Pliaaheth’s time it
was debated in Couneil, whether the ought
not te take the fovercigaty of America upon
her. e e
OMISSIONS.
¢« SHALL WispoM cry aloud, aand not
her voice be heard P’---Shall the warniNg
voice of STARK, the CiNtinnAaTUS of A~
merica, the Herc who never -fought for
honors but in the teated ficld or inthe rural’
duties of hisown farm, who ne er sighed
for the loawes and fifbes of office—pafs unnoti
ced, unhgpded [V H, Patriot.——
HICHLY INTERESTING (COR
RESPONDENCE !
WASHINGTON; DEC. 26, 18C0.
SIR, ‘
A very particular friend of yours,
who has been much recommended to
tomy esteem, has lately mentioned
you to me in a manner, of which I
avail myfelf to offer this expreflion of
the sense I have always entertained
of your chara&er, and of the part you
bore as a 2 Hero and a Patriot, in eftab
lithing the Independence of our coun
try. . ST
I cannot better render this tribute,
than by congratulating you on. the
happiness you cannot fail to derive
from the motives which made ‘you a
champion in {o glériousa caule ; from
the gratitude shewn by your fellow
citizens for your diftinguithed service ;
and especially from the opportunity
which a protra&ed life has given you,
of witnefling the triumph of Republi
can Inflitutidns so dear to you, in the
unrivalled prosperity. flowing from
them, during a trial of more than a
fourth of a century. - h ;
‘May your life &ill be continued as
long as it can be ablefling ; and may
the example it will “bequeuth,. never
be loft on those who live after you. -
- . JAMES MADISON.
Gen. Joun Stark. . |
' DERRYFIELD, JAN. 2], 1810, -
"SIRy sT B ; v b T R
- I bad the pleasure yeßerday of re
ceiving an address fiom the Firk
‘Magiftrate of the only Republic on
earth. “This leiter compliments wme
highly dpon my services asa soldier,
and praifet my patriotism. - Ft'is true
I love the country of my birth 5. for
it isnot only the country 1 should
‘choofe above all others, but it s the
x;wfm days with any fatisfac-
TUESDAY, MARCEF 2%, 18io.
Twice my country hasheen invaded
by foreign enemics, and twice I weat
with the rest to obrain peace. And
when the obje& was gained, I return.
ed to my farm and my original ccci.
paticn. ~ I have ever valued peace o
high, that I would aot facrifice it for
any thing but freedom ; yet submis
sion to insult I never thought the way
to gain or support either. - _
I was pleased with your difmiiul of
‘the man the Englith {¢nt to insult ys,
because they wili fee by the experi.
ment that we are the famenation thap
we were in ’76—grown frong by
age, and having gained wifdora by
experience. EA Y S
If the enmity of this British oxign
is Lo be feared, their aliiange is vl
more dangerot’s. Tor Thave fouahi
with them and againil them, and I
found them treacherous and ungener
ous as friends, and dishonorable as
ensmies. ‘I have tried the Fiench
likewise, firft as enemies and then a
friends ; and although all the firong
partialities of my youth were against
them, iill I formed a more favorable
opinion of them, But let us waich
them. ~ |
- Howevery among all ihe dangers that
1 have been avitnefs of 1o bur country and
our % Repablican Inflitutions,”’ perbaps
there is none that requires a more wetch-
Sul eye than our INTERNAL BRIT
-ISH FACTION. <
If the communication of the result
of my experience can be of any use
in tlie approaching storm, or if any
use can be derived from apy example
of mine—my strongest with will be
gratified. t
The few days or weeks ¢f the re
mainder of my life will be in Fiend
fhip with James Mapison.
JOHN STARK,
To James Mapison, Profident
of the United States.
Extrafls from the answer of the Newo-York ED
ERAL Legifiature, to the Governor's Speech.
“ The powers conftitutionaliv veiled in the
legislatures of the particular slates, & auf qus
thoryfe eny inteyforence on pheir ‘./,i:zat avith the
Forcign Relations of the United Staresw—lf, h‘cwi
syer, the general covernment. to whole cenl
fideration 4is and WARY otheF tapics cmw
braced in your exceliency’s speech, Sroperly
belong, fhali require the co operation of this
house in any measure neceflary to maintain
the dignity and provide for the protection
of the nation, the well known patriotism of
this state is a fufficient pledge that (uch co
operation will be promptly and cheerfully
afforded.” —— ———
** It does not comport with our sense of
propricty to assume the office of ctufors, on
the condu@ of the general admigiftration,
and therefore we forbear to enter into a dif
cuflion of the UNATONED injury we have
reccived by the insulting ATTack on one of
our public armed ships ™ ;
% DUELLING.
The Legiflatire of Virginia has pafled an
act 1o prevent Duelling. Besides the ufua_l
punithments of disfranchilfement, &c. the
law contains the following falvtary {ection.
“ And be it further enalled, That from and
after the pafling of this a&. every pericn
who shall be appointed “to anyoffice -or
place, civil or military, under the common
wealth, fthall in ‘addition to the oath : 1
do solemnly swear, or affirm, (as the case
‘may be;) that T have not been engaged in a
duel, by fending or accepting a challenge to
~fight a duel or in any other manner in viola.
tion of the ad, entitled an a& to suppress
duelling, (since the paflage of that act) nor
will I be so concerned directly or indirectly
in such duel during my continuance in office,
so help me God.” : _
; _ oA ;
From the letters of a Modern Traveler.
“Herfehel's Telgfeope.——Re-crofling the
Thames and retproing to the London road,
you observe to the left, the telefeope of
Herschel, with its large and magnificent ap
paratus. It flands in the open air, appears
to 'be considerably elevated, and s en
circled " with a complicated feaffolding, by
which its fteadincfs is secured. The con
cave face of its great fpeculum is 48 inches
-of polithed furface in diameter, and weighs
near 2118 pounds | With proper eye glass
es it magnifies above 6000 times,and is the
largelt infroment, and has the greatclt mag
nifyipg power of any that has been made.
By its aid Dr Herlchell has been able to ob
serve the lighrning in the atmosphere of the
mooh _and has found out several celeflial
bodies unksown to preceding afirono
mers . The whole was finithed on the 29(h’
of August, 1789, on which day the sixth
satellite of Saturn ‘was' discovered. The
ébfeiv_c‘r.'fﬁfgfndéd:‘?t, ;he qn‘t{ éf ’:tb(c,_ j’nﬁr”u-k
“ment, with his W‘l%;?W?lds the olbje& he
views, lonks.down, the tube, and fees .the
jmage reflcted from the mirror; whillta
ot el sgond pently rouadshe Bficument
to accord “with the apparent rotatory mo
“ticn of the heasens; thus preserving the im
‘age of he objed on the mircor with afion
g abiieg. 7 s L A W
* Tiis fated in the Aurora, that 4 single re
tail Gore in_ Philadeiphia, paid. in the last
fyske. thedom of Sopor’ Sulgg fok Haeds
wares of American manof utes-and that
ko erealig.s ¢ o B A
| CREAT CRY AND LITTLF WOOL ! —oOF
f The Federal majority of 109, alla bum !
. Thefeds fay the Resolution in favor
“of Britain and-againfi onr cwm govern
nienty were carried by the imposing
majarity of 109 votes..— For the in
formation of our republican friends
throughout the union, we slate, that
the whole number of Representatives
composing the Maffachuferts Legisla
ture the present year, is about 590 ;
that when the said vore was taken,
there were only 309 voters prefent—of
those ahfent more than 130 were re
-3 <
publican, and only between 50 and 6o
federal— And if all the members
ciiofen had been present, the majority
wonld have Been but lirtle more than
thirty—=lefs than the number compo
sing the Soltor host 1 ¥ Ehromcle. 35
From the Aurora.
Wlg. Duane—When I had the honor of
ad{refling you a piece, publiflied in the Au
mr\i December 15th, signed A friead to
the ibreffed,” 1 was ‘almoit ready to pro
nouike my anathema on all the officers in
the Bitith navy—but there are few general
rules without an exception, and | am hap-
Py tofind there fill remains to ‘the Britith
a fewoflicers poficfled of humane feelings
tnwarls their fellow mgrtals, and who have
a liiiil\capal')!c of overcoming the vulgar
prejudiees entertaned cagainft the Irish, as
will be seen in the following narrative, the
fubﬂa.ricc of which was communicated to
me by la respectable passenger in the brig
Betfey,iCapt. Anderson, from Londonderry
for New York.
The Betley failed from Londenderry,
Cdtober 7th, nothing particular till Novem
ber 4th when she was struck by a heavy
sea, which hove lier on her beam ends thift
ed her ballafl, and washed overboard four
paflengers, three of whom soon regained
the veflel, 'but the fourth, named John
Brown, was loft, leaving behind a wife and
five children; after the brig righted and the
ballast replaced they proceeded pleasantly on
their voyzge, and about the Ift December,
to the no {fmall joy of the paflengers, found
themselves if soundings off New-York—but
this joy was of fhert duration, when they
found that the captain dare not enter the
United States, as the Betsey was an embar
go breaker, he accordingly put about fLip
and. began a combat with Neptune and
zdolus, which lasted to the 26th, during the
cinteflt it was acknowledged that captain
/nderfon behaved galantly, though he had
‘to contend with two powerful encmics, for
let them attack him in what quarter they
.would, he faced them manfully till his {ails
were nearly all bfown from the yardsand o
biiged him ta put into St. Kitts for fafety.
During this contest the captain was not vn
mindful of his paflengers, for he caused them
to sign a writing which authorifed him to make
the firlt port ; having so far succeeded he told
them his object was 3 port in the Weft In
dies, where, if they would not all quit the
brig, he would ¢ndeavor to have her con
demned as unfeaworthy, and it be failed
he would take her to Jamaica and have them
all imprefled. December zoth was spoken
and politely supplied with candles, oil; and
twine by fe' r,e———, capt, Swan; from the
ealtward, for jamaica— 24th, going into St.
Kitts was overbauled by a Britith brig of
war, who refufed to impress afingle pas
senger, notwithstanding capt. Anderion’s
invitation to do so, but on the contrary was
diligent in enquiring into the wants and
neccffitics of the paflengers, particularly
Mrs. Brown, for whom he made a colleétion,
in his own veflel, of about fiffeen guineas, and
during the stay of the paflengers at St. Kitts
the British officers were very attentive to
them. : :
Captain Anderson, finding the passengers
had met with protcétors inflead of impref
fors,and that they would not quit the brig,
entered his protest, had her condemned and
fold, & out of the proceeds. the paflengers
with difficulty had their paflage paid to St,
Bartholomews, from whence the American
consul sent all who chose to come, on board
the brig Three Brothers, capt. Doggin, for
Balimore, by whom they were treated with
the greatest tenderness during the passage.
Query. Has not captain Anderson acted
agreeably to inftruftions received from Hark
ley. Wood; of Wiscaffett, the owner of the
_brig, aud has not he, (H. W) depending on
capt. Anderson to execute his orders, had
the Bclfcy insured very high 3
&5 Let the insurance cffice it may con
cern look to it - DETEGTOR.
. ZOREIGN ARTICLES:
_ S - _BAYONNE Nov 26,
The number of prisoners taken at Ocana,
is more confidérable than we at firft imagin
ed.—They are bripging in every day entire
columpé of them. = Yelterday = 16,200, ‘r:
rived herein four columns ; this day 300-~
we expect to morrow between 10 and 13,
oco-~they enter through the gate of An.
tioch, and fle acrafs the walk of the Prado,
where. Ihc;ir are counted ca refquy, by the in
“habirants of Madrid,whom cariofity dttracts
in great punibf The prifoncrs are: lod
ged in the Retifg;and other large buildings;
AR AR A NOURMBER, G 2
. To-mggrow the 5o pieces cannon, the
40060‘*&(8 and the biggage taken
from the €nemy will arrive bere, - -
SWEDEM: . Gavisley Do s
. GysTAVEEIV TR, (e Jate. deilroned
wedilh Biog &b Jid fxtuily sl iy
danes aciivid ot CoriGions i Rowiay
all, o whieh pieie Shey il otk fiv
Suralfund, on board the Swedish frigate
Camilfa, After “%ﬁg‘ e e
“the f"im;wm é:ﬂ%“a
O i Yoc (beiF [Utß(€reiletines L
[Two portrs. per anwvum.]
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Political Miscellany.
Brographical Memoir
v OF THE
Hon. ELBRIDGE GERRY.
The fubje@ of this. Memoir was
born in the town of Marblehead, in
this Commonwealth, in the year 1746,
His father was a refpeQable Merch-nt
of that place, and acquired a very
handsome fortune by commercial pur
suits. —Ererince entered Harvard
College at an early age and received
the firft honors of thut institution in the
year 1762. On leaving that seminary
he rurned his atiention to commerce,
and his fairnefs, corre@tpefs and s{lidu.
ity in that business and_ his extensive
“Foowledg?d of comeferdial - concerss,
secured him very liberal success, His
mind, however, was natuvrally incline
ed to the polities of the then Colonv,
which were daily becoming mnore se
rious and important —and as soon as
his age would permit he was elééted
by his native town a Membgr of the
General Court. ’ ;
Here his capacious and powerful
mind pradually unfolded its power &
his 2fliduity and attention to business
rendered him a most ufeful member
of the Legislature. .
Much of the business of those days
were prepared and arranged ip com
mittees and Mr. Gerry was aflociated
with Adams; Hancock, Warrex and
other diftinguithed pauiots, on)kll the
important committees of the Legifla«
ture.—On the commencement of hol
tilities he was a member of the | com
ruittees of public {afety and (upplies,:
and their unceasing and indefatigable
afiduity commanded a very large
share of public gratitude.
An anecdote occurred here,whicli
it may be well to relate:=Thefe com
mittees had been fitting at Cambridge
on the day preceding the battle of
Lexingtonsnd had adjourned before
night—but Mr. G. with Colonels Lee
and Orne be{ng at a distance from
~ their houses ¢oncluded to remain there
~till the next morning. In the middle
-of the night they were alarmed by the
' approach ofghe British troops on their
% march to Concord. When the main
. body came opposite the House in which
' these important committees had beedt
- fittihg, a file of soldiers was unexpecs
tedly detached and ordeted to fur
ronnd the house for the purpose of
i taking prisoners, foch of the commite
tee as might be there. With greap
t difficulty and good fortune, these gen
tlemen escaped with scarcely any cov
' ering but their shirts, and concealed
i themselves till the feaich 'was over.
- They afterwards returned to spread
. the alarm among the citizens and im-
E pel them to the noble resistance of
- that memorable day. Mr. Gerry con
' tinued for some time an adive and in
- fluential member of these committees;
and was the intimate friend and con
fident of the revered Gen. Warren.
. On the night preceling that gentle
men’s departure for Busker Hivry
' the two patriots retired Zo the fame bed 2
the night was passed ina restless anx--
iety for their country, and the last
- words of this martyred hero before
his departure for the awful heights”
were addrefled to his heart’s belt
friend with a melancholy presentiment
of his fate. = - k%2 e
o~ Dulceet decsrum off Vi
- Pro patria mori——
- About this period Mr. Gerry wag
_appointed Judge of Admiralty, which
Ration, although very luesatiNe, he
declined accepting, declaring it to be
his intention to -take a gqm adtive
part in the service of his<country.
. Mr. Gerry. waé'»af?"@ar&lw
a.Del':%a;:e from this State to theCon
grefs of the U. States, and cofghmid
there during the whole of the, war.
On the 4th of Jdly, 1776, he signed
the Declaration of Independence, by
free, foﬁc‘;gigi~i“%ﬂa>)w¢imi:e'ma
BSOS Ret L
P Congrefiasin the State Legiflas
~ture, the assiduity, attention, and ex
tensive information of this gentlemany
caused him to be_placed on all the
_ important Mméwhwm
and opinion was zefpedted as thie-cool
bim, no danger dismayed bim. Inf
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