Virginia Argus — Richmond, Va., 1810-11-09 00:00:00, page 3

years -near Roir.e) liad thfown
sell, with his immense property, in-'
to the hands of the English at Malta. I
_ General Miranda had a long inter- ^
view with the Marquis of Wellesley .
at Apsley-House, Piccadilly, on the
. 9th of September.
the produce of
export a contra
the productions of the French
In consequence th;s, prices of su
gar, coffee, Sic. rise daily, but cotton
on the decline ; West India and East
India produce cannot be imported but
by a certain number of permitted
vessels, to be expedited from New
York and Charleston, and to those few
vessels are reserved the exclusive
privilege of introducing into France
West and East India produce.
Licences are reserved lor French
resstls neutralized.
[We have seen a letter from an in
telligent gentleman in Paris, dated
9 Sept. 20, which precisely coincides
with the contents of the foregoing.]
Phil. Oaz.
Philadelphia, Nov. 3.
TKE LATEST NEWS.
We have letters of the 26:h August
from Paris, and the 4:h of September
from Bordeaux—later advices appear
to have been received by other papers,
but we do not discover in them any
thing more important, nor so authen
tic, as the advices in our possession.
General Armstrong having accom
plished the objects which induced him
to remain in France after having dis
posed of his household furniture in
May last, had determined to cmhark
between the 10th and 20ih October at
Bordeaux. He was to leave Paris on
the 1st of October.
At Paris, the conferences which
were held in June and July, by an as
semblage, consisting of three experi
enced men in foreign commerce, in
ternal commerce, and in the manu
facturing arts, resulted in the establish
ment of th’ee councils or boards, who
are entrusted with the duty of forming
codes of economy for the several de
partments of France. The questions
involving American commerce, were
necessarily discussed, and have con
tributed, along with the zeal and firm
ness of the American minister, to pi o„
cure the repeal of the Berlin and Milan
decrees.
XT r T Dnotlion I ^ llrn.!) n
- j- -
as much esteemed for his private vir
tues, as the excellence ol his capacity,
remains as charge des affaires ; a du
ty to which he is every way compe
tent.
We apprehend the report in some
of the papers concerning the appoint
ment of Alexander M’Kae, Esq. tc
file consulate at Paris, is not correct]
2V1 r M’Kae went to Europe on the
concerns ol an important establishment
ol the arts, by a company formed at
Richmond, Virginia, oi which Mr,
JM’Rae is a member.
The little emperor of Waahita wai
still at Paris, almost literally raking
the kennels. An anecdote of his his
tory, will correct some of the amusing
articles which we receive from time
Wo time from the British prints.
(P* * Burr had so far succeeded in a pro
* ject which he either brought with hi in
from England or contrived to fabricate
at Paris, as to find access to the iniu
ister of police Fouche (duke of Olran
to.) The project submitted by Bun
to Fouche, was a treaty offensive and
W defensive should fonn the basis of at
* immediate peace between France ant
Creat Britain, and that they would
between them, give law to the « orld
particular dispositions concerning thi
I* United States and South America
were embraced inthe plan; the Uni
ted States were to be formed intr
tii’tc distiritt provinces, of which al
r 3 S'?
the territory noYth and east of the •
Hudson was to be one, subject to the
appointment of a stadtholder by Great
Britain.
The territory between Hudson and
the Potomac, was to be a neutral
stat£ with power to establish its own '
go^rnment, with the consent of the
hiJyfcontracting parties. The terri
tory south and west of Potomac, was |
to be placed on the same looting in j
relation to France, that the country east;
of Hudson was to stand with regard
to Great Britain. [That is we sup
pose with 9 viceroy over them.] Va
rious other details are noted.
But it appears that during the tour
of the French emperor to the coast
with his empress, the minister of po
lice, Fouche, actually contrived to o
pen an indirect communication with
the British government upon the sub
When the emperor returned from
AntvLrrp, he first discovered the trans
action; the consequence of which was
the disgrace of Fouche and his being
compelled to retire to Italy ; Ouvc
rard, another agent in the intrigue,
was committed to prison ; and Burr
wa3 placed under the supcrinienda ce
of the police as a British spy.
The commercial operation of the
decrees ol Berlin, Milan and linm
boullet, has entirely ceased. The po
litical operation will hang over until
the period at which their termination
is marked in relation to Great Britain,
that is the 1st of November. But A
merican vessels enter and clear out
HQ iKn nnlir A t U...
. taken place is in the encrease of duties,
| greater strictness in the officer* in the
dougp sequestered property unless
whewPthere is actual or prima facie
evidence of being British, will he re
stored. But r.o part »f the F etich
system may be expected to be relaxed
towards British products ; no manu
factures will be admitted on any terms ;
and wherever produce finds access un
der license, it will pay an enormous
tax to France, such as can render no
colonial speculations to France pro
ductive to the origin 1 producers.
There are to be certain ports desig
nated through which particular arti
cles will be allowed to pa s under such
regulations ; but the entrance ol per
sons or goods from England will sub
ject the former to imprisonment, the
latter to confiscation.
The Journal de l’Empire and Mon
iteur of Paris, contain some correspon
dence of gen. A‘ msirong with the duke
of Cadore, which we have not a: pre
sent time to translate.
There are likewise various details
from Spain, Portugal, Turkey and Ger
manv, which tho’ not of particular in
terest, throw a different light on affairs
in those countries from what we are
accustomed to receive thro* other chan
nels.
As our government must have been
in possession of the official advices of
the repeal of the Berlin and Milan de
: creesivy.e may now expect by the first
mail lrbm the seat of government, the
proclamation required by the law of
| the 'ftVst of May last. In fact it now
becomes a duty on the president lo
issue it, and we make no doubt of its
being immediately issued.—Aurora.
Washington, Nov. 5.
FROM THE NATIONAL INTELI GENCER.
The Proclamation of the President
must relieve the public mind from
much of thcsolicitude which it has for
some time past felt. It announces
the important fact, officially ascertain
ed, that 14 the edicts of France violat
ing the neutral commerce of the U.
States have been so revoked as to
ceai.c to have effect,” and, in virtue
of the unqualified directions of an act
of Congress, declares all existing re
strictions on the commerce and ves
sels of France and her dependencies
removed. A', however, no restriction
exists, with regard to France, except
the exclusion of her armed vessels
from our ports, the principal effect
produced will be in our favor by the
revocation of her decrees, by which
. we shall be permitted to carry on our
trade without any other annoyance
lrom her than is authorised by the es
tablished laws and usages of nations.
It i^ scarcely necessary to remark,
thaf the P,x tsident, in this prodmu
tton, has strfi|i!y and literally pursued
t|ie Lfaek mvkedlout by Congress,
ftmi&mcrclwliscRargcd a minister!
• tru^r A feeble stand ha», indeed,
m.itjle-Hy a few warm partisans,
who have contended, that so long as
i the French government retained the
sequestered property of our merchants,
i she evinced an indisposition 44 to erase
i to violate the neutral commerc e of the
United States.” But, admi.ting the
, fact, and concurring lull) in the senti*
• ment that while she docs retain that
i property she continues to commit n
i flagrant injustice, docs It prove, in the
•
very face of a solemn official dr cl ar a- 1
tion, that she will not hereafter change I*
her course, .when she explicitly says :
that she will? The seizure and se- 1
ques'ratiou of our property, although i
it is highly reprehensible, and will on- «
questionably present a solemn point I
ot discussi^ on our part, were long 1
anterior to the decimation revoking j
her edicts ; and thesfr very acts, so fla- i
grantly in violation dr oar neutral com* <
merge, are those, sahong -Others, which *
by Imr declaration she pledges herself •
to &4se committing. * If, after her
declaration, she had continued to seize
and sequest^r^jur property,, a correct
suspicion would have been excited, and
it might well have been doubted,
whether she would have carried her
promise into effect. But she is hot
charged with any such conduct. It
has moreover been seen, that the terms
of the act ot Congress are broad amt
imperative ; looking entirely to the
future, and not clogging any arrange
meats, calculated to secure a respect
for our rights lie re alter, by any past
conduct, however atrocious. On this
head, therefore, the President, being
vested with no discretion, could extr
cise none.
There is another question, one per
fectly distinct, which it may remain
hereafter to settle with the French go
vernment. By her rescinding her e
dicts and otir withdrawing our restric
tions, the question of sequestered pro
pkrty is not put to rest. It will still
remain in its full force, and our claims
on fier justice and honor will be una
bated. May they not, indeed, be
strengthened ?
■ I nt Circular of the Secretary of the
Treasury discloses the next step taken
in this interesting concern.* It de-j
dares the sta’.e ot things, which will |
three months hence exist with re-:
gard to G. Britain, in case she 44 shall!
not have revoked or modified in like j
manner her edicts violating the neu- j
tral commerce of the United States,”
according to the same act ot Congress,
which prohibits 41 beth the entrance ot
.jBrhish vessels of every description
vnrto the harbors, and waters of the
United States, r»nd the importation in
to the United States of any articles
the growth, produce or manufacture
of the dominions, colonies and depen
dencies of Great Britain, and of an)
articles whatever brought from the
^aid dominions, colonies and depen
dence s.”
This was a result too important to
be passed over in silence by a gov
ernment instituted for the protection
of its citizens in all -their lawful pur
suits. As so large a portion of our
ordinary trade is carried on with G.
Britain and her dependences, it was
proper that whatever went to suspend
it should be clearly stated, that every
doubt on this head might be removed.
Prompt as this notice is, it will bare
ly afford time for the merchants to
give the requisite instructions to their
agents in England, and to the mer
chants in England to avoid the penal
ty attached to an infraction of our laws,
in case she shall not revoke her orders.
■This official notification was further
important, as it announced to G. Bri.
tain and France the determination of
the Executive to carry the act of Con
gress with scrupulous good faith into
effect. To the former it carries a se >
rious appeal, claiming the same re
spect for our neutral rights as we had
experienced fion her entmy ; while
to the latter it is a proof of our rigid
impartiality, and purpose to act to
wards her as we did to her eneniv un
der circumstances in some measure an
. alotrus.
Thus has the present Chief Magis
trate, in the short period of eighteen
months, had an opportunity by t:e
most emphatic and striking displays
of impartiality to styrw his unbiassed
and inflexible regard for justice to
\v.» eft the two colossal powers, whc?e
deadly feuds scy-Aeeply disturb the re
pose of^ihe world. In the arrange
| nient with Mr. Ersktn6 thts disposi
i tion was shewn towards G.’Britain { it
is now similarly exhibited towards
1 France. The same measure that was
I dealt out to one is now extended to the
pother. Men, who are not the veriest
I’slates of party, must approve in this
lalt instance what they so warmly ap
plauded in the former.
Will England follow the example
thus happily set by France? If she
has a regaal for her character, for her
word, or for her interest, she must.
Her character calls upon her to defend
instead of oppressing neutral rights,
i hiPVord has been repeatedly pledged
; to resgind or revoke her edicts violating
l oun^Putral rights as soon as France
j revoked hers ; and her interests re
: quire her to maintain a good under
I standing with her best customer.
i These considerations ought to influ
j ence her. We cherish the hope that
they will: But they may not. Sh c
may mistake her interest*, and in her
i‘l founded hopes and calculations too
ittle regard hvr character and word,
vhich may he sacrificed again on the
ilt.tr of afalse necessity. Under the
incertainiy, which hangs on ihe fu
our course is fortunately obvi- !
>usA VL< t us value her good will ?nd 1
>y all proper means cultivate it ; but
et us value justice still more, arid be '
irrpared, wiih alacrity and vigor, t’o |
issert our rights :ig bust all aggressi- j
>ns upon tketn, let ihetn tome irom j
vhat quarter they may;
l&ii’Ctmia
RICHMOND,
FRIPAY, November 9, 1810.
The conductors of a certain Balti
more print have very gravely decided,
in their paper of the 3d ins ant, that
the President could not “ legally issue I
his pro< tarnation in the tetnift of the '
act of the first of M ay last and declare
tha» the decrees of France are now so
rev‘jPMk.or modified that they cease
t0 v'r}iLnr o^Mtral commerce of the
tates.” The argument ad.
vancetl in support of this editorial de
cision is, that “ the revocation promis
ed in Cadore’s letter was future and
contingent, depending upon the pre
vious revocation of the British orders
iri council, or the hostile resistance of
them by the United States.” This
argument, v'hich does not do much
c edit to the authors ol it, is altogether
a misrepresentation of facts.
I he revocation of the Berlin and
Mil m decrees, as announced in the 1 t
ter of the Duke of Cadore, was nei„
ihtr future i or contingent; u less the |
question is begged^ by affirming that
Congress will violate the pledge which
it has given in the act of the first of May
nwu. i ms is a thing not at all to be
presumed ; lor in whatsoever manner
the fcutjjpnal legislature may have vari
ed in in measures, it has never been
guilty of any thing like perfidy in its
eng ’gements.
The French government, bv fixing
the first day of November for the ces
sation of the decrees, gave certainty to
the repeal; ::s much certainty, at least,
as one nation can give in su h case to
another; for all engagements of the
kind are made by official declarations
between the parties. If the *• Federal
Republican” docti tne should pred uni
nale,' there would be an end to all ef
forts for an adjustin nt of differences ;
because, it is “ impossible to know" in
any circumstances whether foreign po
tentates will adhere to their arrange
ments, further than the knowl-dge that
arises from a reasonable presumption.
The certainty g ven by France in
fixing a day for the repeal of the de
crees, had arrived and wa> past, be
fore the President issued his procla
mation. The executive, therefore,
cannot justly be said to have acted up
on a promise to be fulfilled ; but on
one which, agreeably to official notice-,
had been fulft'lsd. The Duke r-f Ca
dore declared that the dec ecs would
cease to have effect on the first of No
vember;—the President did not issue
his proclamation till the second.
Neither is there contingency; be
cause we are bound by our orvn net to
revive the non.intercourse li’.v against
England if she does not ann d h r or
ders, and this is all that the Fiench
government requirt s. Congress have
already- provided for the revival, so
that it w> no more contingent th in the
loneratinn ofanvotb.tr law. And
il ihe reviving act did not exist, but re
mained to be hereafter enacted, is it to
be supposed that Congress would com
pel the President to do a thing in which
they would not support him i This,
indeed, would be a species of treach
ery without parralitl, except in the
case of Air. Er&kine and his goVern*
ment.
There is, then, n-> futurity, no con
tingency in the business. N«*f does
the Duke of Cadoie’s h tier r quire the
j British government to abrogate their
anti-neu ral orders previously to the
repeal of the Berlin a id Milan decrees.
It does, indeed, most properly de
mand a extemporaneous extinction of
them; in which case the whole on
hwial system would tall together.—
i’his,however, th- Baltimore print ad
[mils “ has been rejected bj Great llri
j tain Jt contending, at the sa ne tiin
that the pre.idcnt ought to have ex
tended the terms of »he ptoclstmation
to England as well as France, ihe more
especially because England has also
! made a promise to repeal her orders in
| council. But let us h ok at the British
j promise* Does it give any certainty ?
Mo: lor it neither assures us of a re*
peal of her paptr-blotkades, (which
violate neutral enmnv rce equally with
the Older# io C iu »cii,) nor even de
signates a flay on which the orders will
“cease tx have their rffect.” Great
Britain, in Uc , ha-> made no nb olate
promise of repeal ; tm: has, in effect,
referred to an undefi..td contingency
as a preliminary sine <jua 7ion to the
abrogation of the orders.
1 he common sense of me pui-U ;
will justify these observations. I wul
do more; for it will suggtst that it
must be entirely the fault of CngL-d
if the noo.intercou’. se revives agam-t
her, inasmuch aa she will have three
months notice to conform to toe re
qffiaction's of justice. If, when the
I’Vfcb tflicts cease, those of Gr< :.t
Btytajp c<^dse also, there will he to
conflict between us. Xhus, the event
depends wholly upon Gloat B'riiutA
herself.
Mr. Harrison Dance, late D pu
ty Clerk of the Richmond Chnncery
District Court, is appointed Cloik of
the Court of Appeals, to supply the
vacancy occasioned by the dc..thof
Mr. John Brown;
Broad Cloth (says the Norfolk He
rald,) which sold in England for 43s
per yard, has fallen to 21s. This de.
pression ought and must have a consid
erable effect in lowering the price of
cloths in this country.
, Port of Richmond.
IV ENTERED.
Schr. Carlton, Johnston, New-York.
Sloop Corporal Trim, Damerou, Nor
■ • folK.
Hunter, Gardner, New-York.
CLEARED.
Blig New Packet, Luce, Boston.
Schr. Seamen, Holmes, New-Yorl .
Shrppaidess, Lefort, do*
Independence, Barker,
Sloop Hunter, Gardner, d
Schr 3 Friends, Wheaton, Charleston.
fltc'jmcmti STfjcatre.
The last Night, but two this season*
Mr. PLACIDE’S BENEFIT.
On 1'riday Evening, Noil 9t i, will be pre.cmed^
Moreton’* ccltbri ‘ ,f
SPEED THE
\ Cj /' END OP Tl /
Dancing on Uj/Tight Rope, (
For the last time, by Mr. Phtcide,
Who will dance a Hornpipe, and display the
I'lag in m variety of attitudes, Stc,— After*
wards he will dance with two boys fasten,
ed to his feet ,• likewise with two men attach,
ed to hia feet in the same manner.
After the Dancing, will be exhibited
a Grand Collection of
HISTORICAL PAINTINGS.
To which will be added,£for the firat time hc-Cj}
a Grand Historical Pantomime, m two
acts, called
TELE MAC HUS
IN 'IHE
Island of Calypso.
C. THOMPSON^ \
Portrait rain ter.
1} ESPECTFULl.y informs "the inhabitant/
lv of Richmond and its vicinity/That |X- has
gain enmmen ed business in me nouse J
the Swan Tavern. r***iC~
Nuvciabei 6 n, 1810. _ w4t
nITtTce.
THK Owners of Merchant Mills and other, in
Virginia who are in arrears to Mr. Oliver
F.van f r erecting and uring hia patent Improve.
men*s in the art of manufac uring fl 'ur ami meal
&c. without a l-ceoce ma now have a favourable /
op(K»nunity of forwarding to rr.e their parent/
fees by the mr-mbt-rs of the ai A ttaching legiflajf
sa e, 8t by them or their directions I will send or
return icences. Amount* have been published
according to the machines they have in u„e, A
compliance will oblige
Your Obedient «eroant,
JOHN MOODY, f.,c
OLIVER EVANS.
*-t-#—
Mr. WILLIAM POWELL,
Sir,
F observe in a Fate number of the Ar„
yus, a notification by you, cautioning the
public aguinst tree ving a bnntl given by •
YAU to me, “as it was obtained by frond.’* j
Tnis is the first t<me I ever heard you were 1
indebted to me in my Lie. Be pleased, ho- V
nest, honest Mr Powell, <o let us see deep
er in the mill stone.
Yours,
EDWIN G ARNETT.
K ng k Queen, 29th, Oct. 1810. it
\OTlCE is hereby R’ven, t***t the cn.part.,
nrrsh p of D BHOmWELL & Yv uE,
is by wtultiai content di oiverl. A I ptf.wna
having claim* againii said him. arc rique tel 10 j
cnmeTorwa'd for settlement mrnsHia rly —i am /
determined to have the affa rs of the concern ad_/
justed as stieediallf as pos-Tbie, and ea>ly apphw
.ation by claimants will bo to them advantage#
out.
JOHN YO <P.
Richmond^ No*rmbfr 7&, 1819. 3t
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