Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political — Alexandria [Va.], 1810-02-26 00:00:00, page 2

manam pan.? W'nr,
. . comhhnl. :: Pomchs. .
klxlftﬂi two) Pulllﬂlko-I!
ssssuvz 'I. Enowsiozu, !
si w, lient-dais.
Put. 1). CZLIC.
* Cow. . lb. 21 24
Duck- Ruuil - had. so as
- 'Imsend 17 19
knit. mo' kcg 8 8 50 ]
box 3 50y4
hedge, Spumh (Hot.) lb. 2 2: 2 50
31]. 60 62
Sol-m bus. 60 75
, " 75 90
I'Wutmegs lb. 7 8
Pe pþel't 22 24
Picmem - siv 28 32
Sþlrbsrmdy (Frenchlnh gal. : 80 2
Gin, Hollmc} 1 1 50 1 75
num,.lamch 4th I 18 l 25
Wind Had ' 1 _ 1 10
ad & 34 Z si ] 95] !
' war
Bags-, m qnl'uy 'm. 10 [11
' _ ad & ad \ 9 to
Ten, ]qu lb. ! 50 I 75
fly-an , 90. 1 10
Young Hynonj 90 1
_ ; HymSkin ' 754 85
When. w.- gal. 2 2 50
si Pan ] 60 l 75
_ Lint-on 1 25 1 30
' " sisi. HM . ] l 5
ctDOMESTIC ARTICLES.
- — ' lier. D. C.!D C.
Bleed,}. lb. 9' :}
Duk— Men bblwsi 13
-_——-' Primo _ ] 12
ct Bre'l &, Cuckcu [00 6
--——- Pilot lb 5 50 ;
....._.smp ' 3 soss 5
Sanies, Mould lb. 18 2?
..si—bDipt 16 msiss'
QKFM -- 8 12
Woe), Uylmd . 16 "
..mu, Moon-m, bbl. 7 so ;;
dﬂhdd si 7 50 3
---l- Hurt-ings 3 75
Flour, sup-t no 4 6 84 _
sick-in, \Vheat has. ] 20 1 45
Corn 72 75
.....-... thsecd ' . 7 5 so
(."-lass, \V'mdow8 by 10 box 13 15
Gunpowder, Keg 25]. 514 15
Bemp cwt- He 16
ran, Bll'l' _ ssLton [20 ]25
Pork. Men _ _ bbl. 18 'ss
— ane lS ;
Spirits, N. E. Rum \_ gal. 8!) 35 ;
Saw,- New-Odeans. 3 :8: 12 _ 15
Lump . [ 19] 20
, thlcco, Maryland ' am. I 50l4 so
.._..--'oPotomac _ 3 id so
PRlCB 0'-F 82'0,C.KS.
MMM, _ par
Potomac do. [02
Maius lnsunnce par
\Vnhlngton Bridgo par
Unl- R'chr 'surnpikc -. uncertain
th'mgton'lnd Alexandria do. par
bcplmns' Court,
WA Cow-], Februdfy Term, 1810.
' Ordcr'cd, Thn the ndmlainmtovu of 1".
have. men-ed. do imn the fojlowipg .d
Who-ent :hruss-timu in each week, for -
Mr week! in the Alonndria Bony Gan-ne.
Tnu. ALBXssWORl-io Rag.
.
Thu ns-tcto-grve'Nonec.
\ Tht the aubacribcra of Alexandria county
II'AN Dian-it.! of Cokmxbia have obtained
fi—zh Omham' Court of all] county let
"I of ﬂammation on the pennon} um
oil-6 M— late of the cow alon
tak-many daceasad :--—- All par
blame dal—a against the-aaid do'ccacpd
who" w h—elhibit the man," kill:
the Hemms. an the submit-n. on
um the am dayofAngma may
WM 15! be ududctsisron all bench
. do,-nate; and those-indebted then-o
_ "mail-du make immediatapayxssnent. 1
cica- will, our handqthia Slac day of
w- ss 0- .
c.; ,Wh Bacon, [aﬀix
Guts hunting Crcek Bridgc, . uncomin.
.hachlngc.on London, : per cent below par.
Mad Pricc Current.
M m 5; Jssoshrs per man.
w : palm.
'O
til-shew .. Robinaon, [ter att'y.
FWRFOYIÞ, afﬂinmmm. !
FORElGN lsiRTlCLES.
Wﬄ: wmu.
si, 1", knit:-sin as.
"ss"_2*—P'M—:_
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. Descrte dreer, convey no charme,
Every ruetling leaf alarm ;
Jealoue thorns to love succeed—
Friendehip's vows, a thistle breed.
\Vith pity moyed—th' Almighty mind,
! Tuunsotv, I'ebruary 8.
\ Extract from Gov. Tompbin's' Speec/t to
the Leg-islalurc as New 2 art.
ople. 's he eituation of the United Statee
i:- been, in the meantime, comparatively
heppy end enviable ; for it hath pleaeed the
greatdiepoaer of wente to ordaiu peace in
ss our bordere, and to crewn {our [year with
goodneu. :
"'The -prooperity of the nation, h we
ver, but not been nninterruptgssd. Con -t
ed " the U- nStltc'o, are by commercil! in
tereoune, with other nations, we could not :
,;void feeling the check of the contending
,.powers. At nn earlyspcriod it was for
_ed,-that out commerce wonltl'experienee
mterialimpedinent- from a windy e:
undodjoreign-mr; and more up;-cially
none of the great beiligerentl continued
the deatiniea of sshe European continent,
and the out.! pouencd the went:!" as,
domineering upon the occu- Btu their;
profeuions of ceopcct for the right: of 9.
then,. and their avowed hot-age to the an
thority of the law of nutions, forbade in to
anticipm those gigantic mities which have
overinped the settled principle: of public
law, which constituted the barrien between
she cnprice, the mrice or the tyranny si of.
. benigerenl, and the right: and independ
ence of: neutrll- lt would in Flinful to
sidwsu Upon-eye!? yew-inn. injmtice, vi-_
" The nations of Europe have per-cured,
during the past year, in their eanguinary
etruggie, with increased animoeity. Whole
districte of country have been deeolate'd;
kingdome eubjugated. and hoste of inno
centeubjecte eacrificed. There occurren
cee present a mournlul picture of the rapa
city and embition of princes, whiiet they
eﬀorda monitory sileeeon to the Ameriean
- Eﬂ'uc'd the image of his Goo.
? Beam'd from eaet. a general ray,
- To western climatee wing'd its way !
Found out fair t'reedern'e hemisphere,
And shone :- connen—tion here. '
Approviog heaven, with [entering hand,
Gave Maeon's triumph through this land ;
And firmly to securc our craft,
From bigot rage and envy's chest,
Senta grand master—si eedom's eon,
"At first conceiv'd the one-ing scheme,
But Envy, fell, essumtd control,
uxrro us A son te now,"—[quick xx. e.
\VHEN God, the Architect supreme,
From eheos end eternal night,
To all up order, worlde,. and light;
Deep tn the omniseient mind the plan,
Our fellowship revolved ; when men,
Breeth'd from his own existenee, stood
A beeuteous portreit of the Son ;;
To love, to sociel joy inclin'd;
For every socinA joy refin'd.
And renc'roue passions seiz'd the soul ;
Chaos o'rwhelm'd the woﬂd again ;
Consusion reassum'd her reign ;
Horror o'rcnst th' aﬀrighted East ;
And nature trembled to the Went;
Mim wept; accurs'd—exile his doom,
A friendlese, hopeless, vast to room :
\Vhero hate, distrust, revenge, & blood,
Again conceiv'd—the Lonon ordain'd ;
Reeolv'd on thie eternal base
'l ' engrave hie name; restore our race :
To earth give ratliance frem its day ;
Pouron the blind ite vieual ray;
Extendits orb where thought extends ;
Nor end in reign till nature ends :
Cause peace. and truth, and joy and love,
Immortal, roundits centre move.
Tho god-like patriot—\VASHINGTON.
LEGISL/i TURE OF NEW- WRK.
Biissful roll'd the moments on,
Gladd'ning eve end cheerful morn ,
Menly ft'iendship, secret love,
Eden's penceful bower: improve.
Happy mortal-, saw once more,
Bliasful days like day of yore,
Men, to ancient faith restor'd,
Reaum'd the image of his Gon.
Brethren, let'e hail our VVAsumcson, _
While-planets through their orbits run;
And let his birth-right ever be,
T e us an nnnual Jubilec.
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" ' experieneedsifor level-al yean pan- Th'
siiitlerdictim oseneutrabcommeree from 0
rtor-lhewhole of the territoriel of one
{digne-thy a'deelaration of blockatctlesi by
z-thei'dthEr withoutaeapaeity therefor; the
sin ition of a ta: or mitduty on neu
mit-omnia- lhe po'rtcteof one power to
legalize its transmiuion to the adverae
power; the tiolentnrrest _from our pubh: !
and private vencls, ofae'amen, almost with- '
ssout regard to the place of their nativity; ]
Fthe liability of neutral property to seizure )
fand" candenmetion- of one party in conse- ;
quence of search by the other of ships?
;transporting it, and the total prohihiuon :
\ as neutraljcommerce and with one belligcr
[ ent by the other, without blockade of any j
dencript'iou, are among-: the prominent u- j
laurpatione which have sacrificed much of
ottr property, enalaved many- of our citizens,
intulted our sovereignty, and almost pros
cribed ntutral commerce from the ocean.
Some neutral vessels have been eeized', roh
bed,or destroyed, or condemned upon sri
ysiolous pretexta, not even justified by the ss
arbitrny and rui'nous restrictiona above '
mentioned—and one of our public armed ,
ships hat been insultingly attacked, te veral
of her crew killed, and other: taken forci
bly away ;' an act acknowledged by the nn- ss
tion whose officer committed it, to be whol- i
ly unwarrantable, but which still remains i
respect for themselves, and for the dignity
of the nation they represent, sotbade them
to brook.. They adopted towards him, on
that occasion, the most moderate and least
irritating course ol treatment; a course
demanded by his deportment, and merit
ing the approbation and support of every
Amctican, who feels anxious to preserve
the honour and independence of his coun
try.
, The momentous duty of deciditig upon
i the attitude which the United State! "shall
; assume in the present emergency, is dele
gated to intelligent and virtuous agcnts. In
ss their wisdom we may sasel confide ; and
it becomes na to place a rm'reliance on
their patrintic exertions to devise such mea
\ sures as may be best calculated to promote
peace and rosperity, or to provide for the
seenrit o our common country in the o
vent o war. For all the eﬀorts of human
wisdom directed by the purest virtue in our
rulers, may rove unavailing without that
union, const ence and support which the
pains of our government, the spirit of pa
triotism and the dictates of reason, nature
and christianity impose upon the members
of the community. If the member and
thehend be united and not in concert, no
soreign power can endanger the life' and
safety of the political body.
: power: cnncinunﬂy vened in the le
gidnum of the pmiculnr mue, do not
Answer of the Home to the Gwernor'e ﬂ
Speak.
'l'n urs BICLLLENCY DANlEL D. Tour
um, zsosi Gov. or "rnz man or NIW
Yonx'.
SlR,
The duty of leginhting for : lage
and opulent me;, is :: nll- time: highly
ruponliblc.
Whether the magnitude of that duty in
enhanced at the pretend f'unemre by the
ennvulnd nate of the civi ized world, and
the great politicnl events, eonstnntly occur
rini. it is no: ner provinee to determine. '
'h
The constant evidenccs of a desire on
our part to maintain a nttsiict and 'impartial
ncutral'tty— the earnest and able appeala for
redress by our rulers to the honour and
justice osthe belligcrents, and our continu
al remonstrances against their incessant and
unprovolted encroachments upon our neu
trai commerce, have ill been disregarded
or evaded. No revocation or mutual re
laxation of the oﬀensivc decrees of France
has been obtained. Wit Great Britain
an arrangement has been e ected in Aptil
last, which at the same time evinced the
impartial and pacisic intentions of our ad
ministratiou, and a returning sense ofgood
faith and upright conduct in the cabinet of
St. ]anws's, dtssused a lively satisfaction
through the nation, and presagcd a specdy
restoration of good understanding and har
mony lzetween the two countries. But our
ister has persisted in impeaching the vera- .*
city ofour adminiStration which a sense of ,
unntoned for. _ _ _ i
pulations on the part of England.
occurred to brighten the pron an ho- :
notable adjustment, of our diﬀer-ences. On
the contrary, instead of evincing an amiea—
cablc disposition by substituting other ac
ceptable terms of accommodation in lieuof
the disavowed arrangement, the new min
hopes were blasted, and the avise and pa- ,
triotic intention of our rulers baﬄed by an ct
uneXpected disavowal of the fgreement]
and an unqualified refusal to tulstl its sti- :
negociated the arrangement, nothing has
" Since the recal of the minister whoss
zhicb' the as; religion?! "if an": ' _
If do'n", ": gem! A". , ,
winne consideration thin "an"! .. 55;
topiu embmed issnyoursiexnsinmqk chcb
properly belong. than nquin'lbo Zo-npe.
lution of thin hence in thy men-un a"...
ny, uninimli'iwbc dignily end (amid.
for th'- protection of tsihc nnion, 15. m",
known paniodcm of th? nue is :: wﬂcim
pledge that uch to:-OPchIZGn y'ﬂs 'bn
promptly an cheerfully (ﬂowed.
The mournsul picture which your ".
, cellcncy ba: dnwn of tbsie unhnpsspy (me;,
? tion of the' nation: of Emopc, m the
! mdifuory leman!-"sick iij.!mnisbn w th.
3 Aursicnn peoph, as {he up:-city and am
} bition of prisincrsfcadlldt 18" m Make n
; deep iniprcnwn on every palriuic' mind;.
, as men we sympaehiu. since-sely wish the
ctnuﬀcren, and as Amrricnna w: feel qan'
; nolicilude to escape simvlnctrcnlnm'nin.
; We have wimcsnrdﬂwith man; un.
' tions os indignation and Women} sithe 'l'
; grcninnn on our n'ot rigiunLv—Flhc bel
si hgerenls, but we have also 'nsiecu Hm "ex
ss u'emc regret, than thou 'SUY'W ba"
ss when: met or rcqislcd'in ": p'anncr be
coming she impnninl stnze U'sshkhﬂ'ﬂsi'. or
by [mans consistent with the honor nnd
ss renne-ran ofour cmmuy. _ _
! It does not comfort with onr sende of
, propriety to ; ssome the office of ceneorl. on
the conduct ol'the general atlministeation,
, and thertlor'e we forbear to rnlcr into 5
1 discussion of the ot-nloned iDle'z' we have
' receiVed by the imtilting ; tuck on 9, as
our public armed si-ips. But in your ex
cellency has been planted to press the sssebo
ject upon us", truth metrum: on to ob
serve, that ifeoclt ntonetncnt has not !:
exacted and obtained during the la,-e?
more than two years, When the qet weete—
knowledged by the nation ;vhm eke:
committed it, to be wholly unwm-muct-b'oe -.
ltie : mortifying proof either of the im
ss becility of our nation or the want of ders)
- in thou who pruide otrer its dct-stiniee.
We have to lamentthat when called up
ss on by your excellettcy to recbgniz'e the
ss constant evidencee of a desire on nor part
to maintain a etrict and imp-u'titti neutrttlitcte,
those evidencca were not exhi-iitet' to ena
ble us to deeide t nderetan ;ingly on their
merite ; and we are the mosi.e teloctant to
express eny opinion on this tate-testing
point, when we rtﬂ. et that the people are
utterly unncqzzaintcd with theatttte-qf the
negociations bent e-. a thin count-y imagine
of the btlllgcrcnu, with whom we hate. '
confining treaty, and hot;: when tee'he
received cept-ete-d and Wctml' injzr-ss
gravitid by t' e most humiliatiog ire-l'
ming .eircmr-s'ance's. -
While "en the one hand the admiuiatre
tion hae thought proper to'disclose, at We;
have reason to bciiwe, the whole of the
correepotidence rcltttit'c to 0\tr diﬀerence!
with Great Bzssit-ia, it sshae on the 'Oth'ee
hand giVen pttb'lieity only to deuched and
apparently mtttilntctl t-xcracts of the 7to:
respontlruce with France. '
", as w: are bOUslil at, prrett-mct, it (no
dieclosttrt: of the. cottllﬂunicmium with the.
latter government, is withltcteltl for His"
ss t'caeonst, We' trust rhat it will not he (i. mctddsi
i dieree .ctsul in ttvto withhold :! blind re
ss cngnitton of the t-q'tis'ttnce of " constant :
Vitlencu Of I deare on Our part to main
ss mill.," in lhct, " a suit". and impartittl tteu
trality." F or nlzlttmgh tt'e freely admit
then reaeonnble constJ-si-nce i-Ltln'e to the
administratora of the general government,
we cannot cotttede that it tvuuld in.-cord
with the duty of this branch of the led-la
tore, to commit its]! on such an important
point, without a full knowledge of every
material eireomstanee connected with. it.
Such e etep would in our opinion be meet, t
ol ssmvile courteey, onbeeont'tngsithe repre
lentativep of a free and might.-saw.
ne. ' "
" The dieevowal on the part of Great Brit
tain of no arrangement entered ,into hyssþee
owne: with the qud Stace: in_ to. an .
me of deep concern. inn-much en wect
pert'teippted in the liyelz' satisfaction which.
the nation derived from the prospeocof I
lpeedy mtorztion of good undentdnding
and harmony between the two ccmntrie'V-L
But when the nccrediu-d ten—mue of
the British nation has declared solemnly
thnt it was dieux-oned become concluded in
vidlation of exprue instruction to her)":
gent, it woutd þe rash in an without'clear
er evidence thou we pen-en of,:ht induce
rity-osehat declnration to impute che din
vowal to bad faith. '
As your excellencsssimny expert that in
amweriag your speech, ned-odd expreu
on opinion on the late-summe of the nego
ciation with the Bs'ttinh minister, it you!-( '
be highly gratisying to sink had'you painted
out the impeadunent by thlt gentleman us
the veracity of our ndministtation, for in
the: case we thank! have npprobnt-cd cor-ct
dially the course of treatment which he
fssJÞs' " '
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