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The cotton inanrfaClure of the United States
cf America is pr posed to be encouraged, ex
tended, p;ottaed and eftablilhed by all the
means in our power. Being a Jingle branch
of manufacture, it cannot put any large (utn
gs prefect revenue at hazard. The amount
of cotton goods imported, is very far info
rior to that of the woolen goods imported.
It is also fippofed to be confidcrably infe
rior to the vitae of the linen goods imported.
The iron gour's inr orted arc likewise great
er ia value, trhe^utLs on foreign liquors,,
and Cn f^rc'gf fug. 3 2ie much greater. As
therefore the Irrfent duties on Co.ton goods
are not even Alecondary consequence in our
scale of revenues gradual diminutions of that
part of the revalue could not fen fibly affed
our resources. As the revenue from no fin
gle article can derange our treasury business,
To this particular revenue (from foreign cot
ton goods) cannot son its,moderation be
ever felt. But if we raise the duty on such
goods from 12 or 15, to 9.0 or 25 per cent,
the firft year, the extra duty on a *fs quan
tity imported may yield nearly an equal re
venue. It is refpe&fully submitted, wheth
er these confederations do not obviate the ob
jeaions, juttly urged at this time against the
danger Os universal high proteaing duties
dettroying or deranging our impofl-rruenue.
The vast extent of country which will
produce cotton, is a serious confidcration to
induce a feleCtion of it for extraordinary en
couragement. — From the southern boundary
to the end of the fortieth degree of north la
titude, cotton has certainly been produced.
It may therefore pro^ to be worthy the at
tention of ail our citizens, living fouth of a
line drawn Tom's River through Mount
Holly, Moore's town, Philadelphia, Lancas
ter, York, Bedford, and Pittfburg ; and this
invaluable plant does not refufe its increase
in light, weak, and flony foils.
The manufacturers of cotton merit the uni
ricrfcl consideration of the American people,
because it will render cotton wool a perma
nent staple article of agriculture and trade ;
and, by fixing it forever upon that footing,
will make an important addition to the va
riety of American commodities and of course
to the liability of their prices. It all our
countrymen were employed in railing wheat
and cattle, these two precious commodities
would often be distressingly low from their
redundance, but if half of the Rates shall
raise tens of millions of cotton, then will our
wheat and cattle support much better prices.
As the cotton manufacturers effected, more
than any other, by labour Javing machines, it
is freer from the objection of the dearrtefs of
labour than any other ; and it is perfectly
clear,.that the dearness of labour is an argu
ment for any labour saving plan.
As there are very few of our native citi
zens, who underhand the cotton manufac
ture by machines, the promotion of this
branch will not divert many of dur farmers
from agriculture.
We have an unlimited command of the
powers of fleam, horses, draught oxen and
water, to move our cotton machines and
mills.
public credit. Thefe^re never to be injur
ed—never to be put at hazard. Let them be
forever protested bv all our prudence, and by
perfea good faith. But let us proceed to
feluct merely byway of examp e, a hngle
branch of American manufactures, and ap
ply to its difeuffion our founded principles
and our belt refleaions.
Tnere have arrived in the United States
from Europe, a very considerable number
of engine and machine makers, carders,
spinners, rovers, twisters, weavers callico
printers, dyers, &c. ready to work on wa
ges as moderate as they receive at Great
Britain, Ireland, and other parts, of Europe.
Those perlons want employment in their
own proper line of business. Every man
among them who fuccecds in this country,
will induce others to follow him. There
are all important and unalterableprcum
ftances in the United States, to draw men
to us, who are acquainted with every ufe
ful art and manufacture. Some of the most
obvious of these are, perfect religious liber-
We have lately disengaged de powers of
the earth to produce cotton by the discovery
and extensive use of a variety of mills and
machines, to free rhe cotton-wool from the
cotton feed.' Fifty thousand dollars have
been granted, by a single Rate, to purchase
the patent right of a cotton grinding or clean
ing machine, within its own jririfdi&ion.
This tact does honor to the wisdom, spirit,
and fairnefs of South Carolina, We have
obtained and possess the common hand spin
ning jenny, which makes by one perfpn,
male or female, from 40 to 120 cotton
threads at one time, also the carding ma
chine to go by hand, horse, ox, or water ;
zlfo the roving machine to reduce cotton
\vtx>; into k.p6# os yarns of the size of a
gcofe-quill, also the mule, spinning by hand
I'2o threads ; also, the water spinning
machinery of Ark-wright, tri spin perpetu
adv at any mill feat. We also possess the
machinerv for doubling and twilling thread,
fw hoficry, and the Britilh and German
flocking weaver's loomsf for making every
article of hofitry, from feet socks to panta
loons.
GERMANY. sTUTGAkD, May 19.
THE inhabitants of Venice ex pt&, it is
said, in the course of the summer, 10 have a
Prince of the House of Anftria tor their
Governor, who will take the title of Grand
Duke of Venice^ It does not appear wheth
er this will be the ci-devant Grand Duke of
Tuscany or not. ft is now affected as a
thing very certain, that this fovercign will
be indemnified tor the loss of his possessions
in Italy, by those provinces of Poland,
which are in the hands of Austria, and that
the iatter power will take those indemnities
which are guaranteed to the Grand Duke
of 1 ufcary by the treaty of lunevilic In
this manner the Court of Vienna will have
two establishments for the Princes of jts
House, as it had before the war. It is as
serted that the Prince of Orange will also
be indemnified in Prussian Poland, and that
the Court of Beilin will be indemnified for
this cession by the Bishoprics of Warzburg
and Banburg.
RATISBON, JUNE T.
Letters from Italy, received this
moment, announce an extraordina
ry piece of news, which we should
however, confider as hazarded.---
If we are to believe it, it is no less
than the occupation of the Morea
by the French army, which have
evacuated Calabria, to serve adds
the fame accounts, with the consent
of the Porte, as a compensation for
the aggrandifement of territory
which Wallachia and Bulgaria will
give to Aufiria and Ruflia, who,
with the consent of the Porte also,
are preparing to take poffefiion of
them.
ty ; a sober equality of civil rights; the
cheap and eaSy acquifnion of free hold cf
tate's for residence, and manufaaori^s and
farms ; the cheapness of government and
consequent moderation of taxes ; the rare
phenomenon of a voluntary executive and
legislative reduction and atbliticn of duties
and excife"s: the non exigence oftytfr,
excises, and national land tax ; the perfect
Security of property ; treupiform success
of numerous well interupned' emigrants;
and particularly from G/eat Britain, Ire
land, Germany, France, Holland, Switzer
land Sweden. It is Impdhble to conceive,
that there can be any faifcalcuhtion, in
confidently relying upon /very necessary ac
quisition of the aid of foreign artists to ccn
du& the American COU^ manufadory, if
it fliall be vigorously angeffe&ually encour
aged by law, when we ^member the great
numbers of Wefel ./id ko^ inert, who have
liters of religion, intruders of the riling
generation, agriculturalifls, lawyers, physi
cians, merchants, land and tea officers,
manufaaurers, mechanics, journeymen,
mariners, and laborers in every line, If we
have had such extensive advantages in pro
curing valuable foreign emigrants, who have
been completely fuccefsful in branches not
connected with labor fating machinery,
can we doubt much more rapid and great
success in branches, where the Saving of la
bor by the ingenuity and Skill of one thousand
hands will yield them and us the benefits of
ten thousand.
As it is certain that this fobje&, if wrong
ly pursued, may produce great public, and
private injury, it is proposed to rest for the
day, with an intelligent and deeply interest
ed community, the small portion of its dc
velopement which this pater contains.
FRANKLIN. -
come
HOLLAND. HAGUE, JUNE 27.
THE election of Orangitts to the depart
mental Government, causes great diffatis
fa£lion among the inferior patriots, who
think it hard that others of an opposite par
ty should run away with the fruits of their
labors. But the answer is, “ That all par
ty spirit having now subsided, an Orangitl is
as eligible to fill a post in the Government
as any othey description of persons, other
wise there was no cause for bringing about
a reconciliation." Few, if any, of the mem
bers of the departmental Government have
been re-chosen.
Several citizens in order to out-do the ladies'
orange ribbons, have drefled themselves in
orange coats, and the fame too which were
worn in 1786.
FRANCE. Paris, June 10.
Citizen Andreoffy is named Ainballador
from the French Republic, to Iris Britannic
Majesty, and will be in England it is ex
pe&ed, during thq course of this month.
Citizen Otto, at present ading as French
Miniver-Plenipotentiary of the French Re
public near the United States of America.
General Vial, is appointed Minister Ple
nipotentiary from the French Republic t)
the Island of Malta.
foreign Articles,
ENGLAND.J
CLARKEWELL SESSIONS, MAY §
Citizen Renard, is apposed C^mif-{
Goner of Commercial Relations dot the}
•French Republic at Zante. *
JUXEaf.
It is confidently reported, that the King
of Eturia is abfyhuely deLanded in his grind.l
Rhe fofs of his faculties is ftypOfed to be
oceWioned by an tpilepfy with 'which he hri
been of late fevcrely aftu&Qr—He heir
since he arrived in Italy, been aTmbft upi- |
formly governed by theadvice 'of Ms Cotr
fATbr ; who in conjt,hfti6h~wtth "the" Arch-''
biihop of Parma-Sufopi, and the new Car
dinal of Sienne, aed hL-Swlv&to, prevailed
on him to iffaeUhthß c4i& F°foeahsihcr"
Prlefts, iii oppohurm .to the. L'crich-Mr^
ter, general Clark. The ' latter threatchid'
the Cardinal Uith banishment.
Lag Monday three weeks, Gen. Murat
was-invited to dine with the King at Pog- :
g,, and took the opportunity of expressing
^'''foetus .freely on, "ttfe'fubjecl. If
'''''. a/Q ha a fhyrt time, and the cod-. ,
verfation made a deep imprqnun Open his
Majesty's tnmth He palled a very uneasy
nig:% and at eight o'clock in ihe morniog,
drefled only in his robe,dc-ch.amct%_ he lan
about the palace with a drawn fabre in his I
hand, calling but that he was betrayed.—
He ordered M. Selvetico, and his secretaries
and apothecary to be zntfted. At length
the courtiers seized the king, whose pallion
threatened the most desperate consequences,
and was at length prevailed upon to loose
feme blood which calmed his mind.
Some disturbances - have lately taken place
in Piedmont. - The cause is not,known,,
and our journals dare uot notice them,. 'r:
THE KING vs. JOSEPH NAPLES.
This was an indictment for Vea|ing dead
bodies from the Spa-fields burial ground, of
which ground the prisoner was the grave
digger ; and also for dealing the caps, ' pil
lows, shrouds, nails, screws and coffin plates
—belonging thereto, and the coffins where
in they had been buried. ,7
Mr. Conft, on the part of the.profe&-
tion, opened the case, by dating that the
prisoner's offence wa§ one of the greatest
consequence to the public, the attiocity of
Which demanded the most exemplary pun
ifbment. He alluded to the gieat benefit
derived by the public from the practice of
diffusion, which he admitted to be the only
source, from which our profeflional' men,
who practice forgery, could derive their
Grill ; yet, however ©eat. such advantages;
might be, nothing cpujd excuse the prisoner
for carrying the offence to the unlimited ex
tent which be had done. He had ravaged
the ground in quFftion in a manner scarcely
to be believed, and which it would be pain
ful for him to describe. He had carried on
this (hocking traffic merely for the fake of
gain, and without a wish of rendering the
lead abidance to his fellow creatures by the
art. In short, his conduct proceeded from
a mind totally void of feeling, and from a
heart bereft ot all humanity. ' He then en
tered fully into the circumstances of the
case, which were confirmed in the cleared
manner by the witne&s, and which were
in fubttance as follow :
W. Bacon one of the Bow-street patrol,
said, that late in the evening, on the 26th
of Nov. last, as he was walking along
Brayne's row, Spa-fields, he law a man
with a large load of a fofpicious nature on
his fhonlder ; that he flopped him, and de-'
fired him to go into a public house, near ;
that when the man had got up one step ot
the public house, he threw down the load
and ran off, and they purufed, but without
success. Upon opening the load, which
was enclosed in a basket, they found the
bodies of a woman and a child in a sack ;
that they were taken at Bow-street, and af
terwards sent to the parish of St. James,
Clarkenwell, with a letter to the church
warden, desiring they might, be again bu
ried.
George Windsor and Edward King were
next called. They swore that, having heard
of the last mentioned circumstances, and
that the bodies were lying in the vault un
der Clarkenwell Church ; they went there,
when the former recognised the body of the
woman to be that of his wife, and the lat
ter that of the child to be his son, both
which had been buried by them a short
time before. They were much agitated
during the delivery of their tellimony.
Harriet Collins, the filler to the prison
er's wife, a girl about fourteen years old,
swore that she lived with the prisoner, when
he firft took the fixation of grave digger at
0e ground in quellion,, and all the time he
was there, which was about two years ;
that Jie began to Veal the bodies about a
month after; that he then took the bodies
from two coffins, and brought them into his
house, which house is on the burial ground,
and afterwards, jpok them to the hospital;
one was a girl, from whose coffin he offer
ed her the ribband that was round her
shroud, and the o'her was a boy ; that the
prisoner from this time, continued to take
two or three bodies each day during ail the
winter feafun, and until the time of his ap.
prehenfion. He generally took them up in
^ie day time, and concealed them at the
bottom of the grave, covered with mould,
till dark, when he took them out, and car
ried them away in a basket, provided for
tTiat fforpoft, by the hdfpital, which basket
she fometimcsheld for him during the pro
ccls^and at oiher.iun^,< Jeept watch in the
-ground to prevent deteaton ; that she once
Aw him cut off the head of a vbuug wo
-rrarr;-which he took to "thcliofpiial imme
diately, and many times after, law him with
_th e heads of perfonsjyJm he laid had died
•of .particular disorders, and which hq also
1°& to thehofpital ; ,hat he sometimes
bpffidihe ffimp^t dr^ rhe teeth only
—which he did with pincers, and which he
took to the hospital, and got a guinea, and
;fometimes. more, for each set ; that he Some
times took' the body to Bartholomew Hof
fyital, to which place Q^ frequently accom
fcnieft him, ahQ other tim^ to two hos
pitals m the b&ough; thatflie generally
got about two' t,vo guineas Gresch body.
She remembered the two bodies being Pop
ped on <he 26th of November ; that Ge
griGr^ had' the fame day get fe bodies of
a woman nd a child ready, "and at the
usual time in the evening about ix o'clr'
—he went into the ground, aid br ugl
out the bodies in the basket, in which the.
were flopped, and die held open the,
for him ; that he then put them on
shoulders of another man, named J<A
White (one of his accomplices) wh^ u r h
[them away, and who is the man who -^s
flopped, and escaped. The basket, in
'which the bodies flopped were found, was
produced, and sworn to by the witness to
be the famejhe prisoner always packed the
bodies in. She dated some other circum
fl^ndes relative to the nails, ferews, &c. and
said, that he actually took up the shrouds
!with , the bodies, some of which were
thrown down the privy, and others burnt ;
she said the, prisoner threatened to murder
her, i( she disclosed any thing cf this mat
ter ; and that she had now been induced to
dg it from his Wanton cruelty to her, which
had compelled her to desert, and seek pro
tection from those concerned in the prufs
cution.
Mr. Jones, on behalf of the prisoner en
tered in some length into the fubje&, and in
a very able and appropriate fpecch, he, af
ter palling the higheV encomiums on the
Counsel, and all those concerned in the pros
ecution, for the fair and handsome manner
in which they had conduced it ; said the
faffs had been so clearly proved that if one
circurnftance he should mention would not
avail, he had nothing else to urge in favor
of )he prisoner : he said the witness, Har
riet Collins, on whose evidence all the pruf
ecutor's case depended, ought not he con
ceived (from her youth, and considering file
might be actuated by pique and resentment
against the prisoner, her brother-in-law) to
be relied upon to the extent the bad deputed
—if at all ; and that if the jury should coin
cide with him in this, which he trusted
would have its weight, the other evidence
would not warrant them in finding the prift
oner guilty : if, however, they should disa
gree with him in this, and believe her testi
mony, he must trust to the impartiality of
their decision, and doubted not it would do
his client justice.
Mr. Graham, who presided as chairman,
then summed up, and said, that unless the
jury, believed the girl, whose teVimony had
beep disgusted, to be grossly perjured, and
he law no reason why they should disbelieve
her in any refpe& whatever, they mult, he
submitted, convict the prisoner. They ac
cordingly without one moment's hesitation,
pronounced him, Guilty.
The Chairman, after delivering a very
pathetic speech to the prisoner, in which he
commented on the heinous nature of ids
offence, said, that even in' uncivilized na,
tions they refpe&ed the burial of the dead,
but that he, although in a civilized nation,
had totally disregarded it, violated the laws
of religion, and deviated from the course of
nature in the iroft inhuman and unparallel
led manner. The sentence of the court
was, That Le must be imprifoneU in the house
of correction two years..*
When the sentence was pronounced, a
murmur of difeontent ran through the Court
—because i: was not more fevere,.when the
prisoner asked the Chairin an if hisfate was.
not hard enough : Some persons expressed
a fatisfa&ion at knowing that Governor A
ris would take care of him. It was with
John Brown corroborated the Taft wr
nels's evidence in part, and likewise spoke
as to the nails, screws, &c. he also find,
Naples once sent him one George Atkins,
an undertaker to know if he would buy
some shrouds, caps, pillows &c. laying
they were little worse for wear ; but At<
kins would not buy them.|
Mr. Woolcott, the Clmteli-wafJrr#
Clarkenwell spoke generally on the fubje&,
and said, that upon opening the privy,
which is about five or fix feet wide, and as
many feet deep, it was found quite full of
shrouds.