The enquirer — Richmond, Va., 1809-12-01 00:00:00, page 3

a natural consequence r,f the cession of
l/pperaud Lower Austria. From the great
letigth to which the negocihciou was pro
rrnr’ed. we anticipate more fhvorable terms
tor Austria, than is generally believed to
have been granted.
F.x'racts from Portuguese papers, and a
Gihialtar Chronicle, will lie found in ano
ther part of our paper. The Spaniards, as
vc stated yesterday, appoar confident of
success—that onr Ministers are not enually
so, the following extract from one of their
hireling organs the Morning l’ost of this day,
evidently shews:—
•* Some Spanish and Portuguese papers
have also come to hand. Their contents are
in general of a favorable complexion ; but
the peace between Austria and France will,
doubtless, soon enable Bonaparte to give an
entire change of aspect to the affairs of
Spain. Its cause, we fear, is now hopeless.’*
From (hr Gibraltar Chrnviclr.
Trsul, Se/ic. 2.— The unhappy inhabitants
of Saragossa, who have survived the mo3t
dreadful siege, and the most destructive
epidemy, are now undergoing a treatment
scarcely less hard than death itself. After
so many calamities, the barbarous Suchet
lias levied upon them exorbitant contribu- j
lions, anti allowed the soldiers to cut down !
the corn before it was ripe, to feed their
horses, without being moved by the tears of
the unfortunate widows and orphans. To
this nre added many other vexatious, one
of which is, that no one upwards of 14 years
«|d, can go about the streets without a per
mit for that purpose, for which he must
pay.
Ciudad Riopa, Stfit. 4.—Two members of
the Beard of Old Castile, who are just arri
ved here, state that there are 2000 French*
m "n in Burgos, but that in Burgo dc O.sma
OriNtdja, and the adjoining towns, thev have
only a few detachments of cavalry and in
fantry. Ney’s division is stationed between
Salamanca and* Toro.
The terms of the peace have not transpi
red; Government, however, are said to be
in possession of them, and confess that tlu-y
are extremely humiliating to Austria.
A report was mentioned in some of the
papers of yesterday, that c Marquis of
Wellesley had received instructions to pro
ceed to Paris to open a negneiatior. with P.o
naparro. it is hard’y necessary to state to
our readers, that the report is wholly un
founded.
Mr. Y.trke succeeds to the office of Secre
tary at War, in the room of Lord Grenville
Levison Gower. Me will, of course, have a
seat in the Cabinet—Mr. Yorjte filled »*-e
office of Secretary at War before, under the
Addington administration, prior to his beco
ming Secretary of State.
Parliament was yesterday further pro
rogued from the 2d of November to the be
ginning of December.
Tlie whole of the Spanish and French
ships at Ferrol and Corunna have, it is swp
posed bv thi3 time, reached Cadiz.
The Paris papers state, that relays of hor
-*>es for the Emperor were ready sit Munich
ori th 1-' inst. and it was expected that he
vouH leave Scliornbrunn on the 3d or 4th,
on Ins return to Paris.
A urge naval fmee is now preparing at
jV.vtsmon'h to sail to the Black Sea. to’ co
operate th the Turks against the Rus
sians. 1 lie following are among the ships
mentioned to proceed on this service ; Nep
tune, 9.1; Kent, 74; Repulse, 74; War
spite, 74; Sceptre, Victorious, Dancmark,
Alfred and la L ire frigates.
M Kay the messenger, lias arrived with
, c' spatcbe^ from Mr. Adair, his
nresty’s arfibassador at the Sublime Porte,
lie came to Plymouth in the Intelligent gun
brig, last from Malta and Gibraltar.
J.ettrr of the Minister cf Foreign Affairs
of France, M. Chamfiugny, to Genera!
Armstrong, Minister of the U. States at
Farrs:
“ AI.TKNBURG, Aug. 22.—Sia.—His Ma
jesty understanding that you are about to dis
patch a ship to the U. States, commands
me to make known to you the unalterable
principles which have and will regulate his
conduce in the great question respecting
neutrals. °
“ ranee admits »he principle, that the
n ag protects trade. The trading vessel which
carries the license ot its government, may
he considered as a moving colony : to insult
smch a vessel by search, pursuit, or any act
of arbitrary power, is a violation of the fun
damental l%w of colonization, and is an at
tack upon the'government of the same. The
seas belong to every nation, without excep
tion: they are the common proper.y and the
domain of all mankind.
“ Consistently with this doctrine. Mer
cnaut vessels belonging to individuals mitv
jiass by inln ritancc to persons who never
cj.posed themselves to he made prisoners of
war, la all her conquests, France has con
sidered sacred private property, deposited
in »he warehouses of the vanquished state,
and such have had the complete disposal of
matters of trade; anti at this moment con
voys by land of merchandize, and especially
cottons, are passing through the French ar
my and Austria,to proceed to the destinati
jmj commerce directs. If France had seized
the monopoly of tlie seas, she would have
• Jircunmlatfd in her territory al! the pro
ducts ff the earth, and she would have ob
tained in;measurable w-al.h.
Cndonbusdly, if Fng’and had the domi
nie n oMand, wiiir.h die lias acquired on the
oce<tii, her acquisitions would have been e- i
qtiahy enormous. f hi would as in the times
f bar;>}'.• ism, have s. -d tlie conquered and
listributed them; as siavcs throughout her
l-ind. i ne avarice (»f trade wouiti haven!)
sorbvd cverv thin*, and the Government of
«n tr.Lightened nation, which has brought
( -e arts ot civihza.ioti to perfection, von: i
have given the earliest instances of the ic
t.n n of the savage j.g-s. That government
fully impressed with the injustice of its
naval code, lint what has that government
:o do with justice, which only inquires for
prof; ?
“ v*'hcn France shall have established her 1
nr.v.il power, which, with the extent r.f her
c jHts f< her population, will he soon accom
I dished, tlicti will the Emperor reduce these
principles tnpractice.fk apply his mandate to
rendc-t it universal. I in right, or rather the
usurp*'ipu of blockading rivers and coasts bv
i (''Clnrj.atioti, is palpably contrary to reason
4..d Kj.it y. A right cannot possibly spring
bom flit will of an interested party, but
ii.ust always be founded on *hc aatural re
i*i( n of ikin'.'. A place is not prnnprlv
blockaded unless it lie besieged hv land and
v/ater. It is blockaded'o prevent the in'ro
duct ion of assistance, by which'ihe anrren
tier of tlii. place might be proti >: ted ; and
then we h -e only the right to prevent mi
tral ships fiom entering the port whcti the
place is thus circumstanced, and the posnu
I »«•" it is matter of doubt between tue l
Ifrftgers and besieged. On this is grounded
tbe right to prevent neutrals from etitcrim j
the place. . b
•• The sovereignty and independence ofitsj
ua^, like the sovereignty and independence '
of its territory, arc the property of every
neutral. A state may transfer itseif to a
iiuther state ; it may destroy the archives of
its independence, ant’ pass from Prince to
Prince, but the right of sovereignty is in
divisible and unalienable; no one can re
nounce it.
“ England has placed France in a state of
blockade. The Emperor has, in his decree
of Berlin, declared the British Islands in a
state ul blockade. Tlic first of these regu
lations forbid neutral vessels to proceed to
France ; tlic second prohibit their entering
English harbors.
“ England has by her orders of council of
tlic 11th of November, 1807, levied an itn
post on neutral ships, and obliged them to
enter its ports before they sail to Franco._
By the decree of the 17th of December, of
tiie same year, the Emperor has decreed,
that all such ships be denationalized, which
bad entered English ports, or submitted to
be searched.
“ In order to ward off the inconveniences
with which this state of things threatened
her commerce, America laid an embargo in
all her harbors ; and although France nad
done nothing more than used the right of
retaliation, its vants, and those of its coin
nies, suffered much from this measure ; vet
del the Emperor magnanimously connive at
the proceeding, in order rather to endure
the privation of*commerce than to acknow
ledge the authority of the usurper of the
seas.
“ The embargo was raised, and a fystetn
of non intercourse was substituted for i t.
I he powers on the continent, in alliance
with England, having the same object in
view, made a common cause with her, that
they might derive the same advaii.ages.—
The harbors of Holland, of the Elbe, of the
Weser, df Italy, aud of Spain, were to enjoy
those benefits from which France was to be
excluded; mid the one and the other were
to be opened or closed to commerce' as cir
cumstances rendered expedient, so as France
was bereft of it.
“ I hus, sir, in point of principle. France
recognizes tiic freedom of neutral com
merce, and the independence of the mari
[ t'nie powers ; which she respected up to the
mom. nt when the maritime tyranny of En
gland, that respects nothing, and the arbi
trary proceedings of its government com
pelled ncr to adopt measures of retaliation,
to which she resorted with regret. Let Eng
land revoke her blockade of France, am!
France will recal her declaration of block
ade against |Englaml. Let England revoke
her Cabinet Orders of the Uth Nov. 1807,
and the Milan Decree will expire of itself.
The American Commerce will then recover
its complete lreedom, and be assured of fin
ding in the harbors of France, favour and
protection. But it belongs to the U States
to attain this happy object by their firmness.
Can a nation, resolved to remain free, he
sitate between certain momentary interests,
and the great cause of maintaining lu-r inde
pendence, her honor, her sovereignty, & her
dignity t
(Signed)
“ M. CHAMPACNY.”
A letter from Liverpool, dated October
20t.li, by the Hercules, says, “ We have just
received intelligence that the Spanish Go
veinnient have ordered the British troops
and vessels to depart from their territory
and harbours immediately. No reason is
assigned for this measure.”..-...Mercantile
Adver'iaer.
CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. •
Monday, November 27.
[Taken for the Alexandria Gazette.]
At 12 o’clock this morning the house
was called to order, 80 members being pre
sent. °
On motion of Mr. JJaiuson it was resolved
that a committee lie appointed to join a
committee from the Senate to wait on the
President of the United States to inform him
that the house bad formed a quorum, and
were ready to receive any communication he
might have to offer.
A committee of two was appointed on the
part of the house, who soon after returned
and informed the house that the Senate had
not yvt formed a quorum.
A resolution for supplying the members
with news paperj was moved by Air. Nelsoii
and carried.
A resolution for appointing the hour of 11,
A. M. for the meeting of the house each day
presented and passed.
i he house adjourned.
SALEH AT AUCTIOjY. ~
VVednesday the 6th in»t. wdl be sold at
V-v Harris's large Brick House, in the Tent*,
ment, next door below Air. '1 human Ritchie's
printing office, about oUO'J S worth ol*new fashi
on.iin- and .veil ex-muted Mahogany I'UHNl
'h ide in tuoritv of K oiiinuml—consist
ingof the following articles, viz :
Side-Boards,
iVajncj k'i'eaTablcs,
Bureaus*
Wusii-ai.ands,
Candle Si mills.
Card-1 ahles,
Tea do.
Cadies* Work Stands,
1> > Dressing Cntsis,
\ l iidf-w Cornishes,
Cadies’ C.-louc.j,
leran-n months credit for ad sums over GO
‘■j. "ide:- .5p cask—for credit, purchasei note.< !
negotiable and payable at the Bank of v'cginia,
with approved endorsers will be required, i»v
PRO.SSER Ik MONCURE, Auctioneers.
December 1 2t
I1 HE Subscri ver has recently obtained licet > <;
as an Auctioneer in this city, bis ofi.ee is in
Mr. James C Anthony's I ."gc fire-proci Ihi Id
ing near Shockne* YTai chouse, where he offers
his services to the public to purchase and soli
Hank Stock, Good Notes, all kinds of Good ,.
Wares K Merchandize, Lands, Tenements, To
Iracco, Flour, &c.
He will always consider it Ills duty faithfully lo
ohs-rve tl e inteii si of those who inay liooo • him
with their confidence, and neglect no opportuni
ty to promote hi in in their esteem.
Barilltt sr:u..
A!) kinds of Goods and Produce, stored mid
delivered on the ahortoit notice by
B. 8.
December 1. wtf
/ ’ RRMAN OS n \ JUJUGh, »u7s 7c „> i.7
vw bale or p.-tee, by the .subscriber, at his bouse,
near col Mayo's Budge.
JAMES INNFS.
December L wUw
Bed-Stead*,
S f».«,
Easy C!t'*ir«,
B »Ule Case i,
1 Elegant Clock and
Case,
Lo'ikirif'-fJIasBes,
Seeretariea,
Cotls,
ivnile Cases, fee. Sir. j
fC&e ^jtqtnrer.
RICHMOND, PE( EHBKK i . 1809.
HEAR BOTO SIDE*!
The following defence o the Ex minister
of G. Britain, and tlie attac: on the American
Government, should be juMly and duly
weighed!
Is there a man, who reafr. it. so blind as not
to see that there ere “ BriValt prints'* in this
Country, who abandon therightsof the U. S
to the insolent pretvtisirownf Gtent Britain?
These remains are »■-rtracted from the
“Federal Republican1* of laltimore—which
would seem to have taken t Brief front the
E't minister.k No advocate was ever more
resolute in the deduce ot his client_or
more worthy of the cause thich he defends !
Gross abuses—airy suspicions—the most
direct and venomous chaije% of fiyfiovricy
and falsehood, are aimed, without the le.ist i
colouring of proof, again t the American
Secretary of fptate ! But the imputation is
ns weak as the cause is tbaudoned ! It is
tchvn sincictu—:i nervelets shaft, that ne.
yer reaches its aim—we at? much mistaken
indeed in the c-miplexioi of the public
iniiuk, it this venomous attack docs not
recoil upon the heads its authors with a
force proportioned totleir deserts.
G.7* \\ e have thiwijtofether 4 few notes,
byway of comment, 05 this extraordinary
production.
Tun more iin/tT'ant facts
It is not very long siiue the people of the
United States were giyatly astonished, by
the disclosure of two iinfl%rtant facts, which
it was deemed at the cris's then existing, !
very material to conceal. It cannot alrea
dy, nor shall it be forgotten, how aghast and
dismayed stood theadlererts of the bloody
hero Napoleon, at the developemcnt made
bv the virtuous Picketing, (ever stern and
vigilant towards the encroachments of fo
reign influence,) of tvo important facts, ra
ther before the inachnation of French par
tizans had proceedci too far to be checked,
ever by the most anple experience of the
fatal tendency of l\‘ench* principles to the
American people. (i) Those two facts al
luded to, are these The British orders in
council, so much tailed of and abused as the
cause of the embarpi, so far from beinga
motive to such a treasure, were not even
known at the time he embargo was laid.
This was at length dscoVered. (/» ) It was
also discovered, what it afterwards became
accessary, in the ojinion of the administra
tion, to throw additonal odium on the Hri
tish government, tint no formal proposition
was ever made, as .'Hedged and vaunted of,
tu the ministry -of J.nglaml to rescind their
orders as to us, on mention of our embargo
being removed as -cspected them, (c)—
Two other important facts it seems arc now
to be presented to us. We (meaning Ameri
cans, not French jatobius) have been very
recently alarmed, b» the account given to us
of the late rupture between our government
and Mr. Jackson. Ihe National Intelligen
ccr (valuable to the administration for the
ambiguity of its character ; being eiiher of
ficial or anonymous. as it suits the mo
ment) stated that Mr. Jackson had grossly
insulted the Secretary of State, by insisting
that Mr. Erskine’s instructions were known
to him previous to the arrangement made in
virtue of them, and since declared to be
contrary to such instructions, and conse
quently disavowed as unauthorised. (d J_
Mr. Jackson, according to the hermaphro
dite official and unofficial Intelligencer, as
serts Mr. Smith’s knowledge of these in
I structions— Mr. S. contradicts such asser
tions—Mr. Jackson persists—the matter
ends in the refusal to have any further com
munication with the British ambassador, as
having given the lie by implication to our
scrupulously veracious Secretary. This is
tile cause of rupture assigned by the Intel
ligencer, to wit—let it not be forgotten, that
Mr. Smith denied all knowledge of Mr. Er
skinc’s instructions, and Mr. Jackson peni
naciouslv adhered to his assertion ns to that
knowledge. Now what says Mr. Jacks n
in his circular, and what lie says is suscep
tiDle of proof or disproof? Why that one of
the facts alluded to, was admitted by the
Secretary of State in his letter to him of the
19th October, to wit: that the t.iree condi
tions forming the subject of Mr. Erskine’s
instructions, were submitted to him bv that
gentleman, (e) Now if such a letter was
ever written bv Mr. Smith, where is the
mighty cause of offence in urging to a man,
what he himself admits to be true ; and it
such an admission was never made, whv is
it not denied ? (f) The other fact is—that
that instruction is the only one in which con
ditions are prescribed to Mr. Erskine, for
the conclusion of the matter to which it re
lates. (g) These then, it seems, arc the
two facts, about which such an uproar has
been made. (h ) Now it does not appear
from the statement of the Intelligencer, that
Mr. Smith insisted upon any knowledge
whatever of any instruction received by Mr.
Erskine—On the contrary, it was understood
that the dispute arose from Mr. Smith’s de
nial of having seen Mr. Erskine’s instruc
tions. Hence then it is difficult to perceive
how any disagreement could have arisen out
of the second fact, unless the combatan s
change sides, as to that, and we find Mr.
.Jackson persisting in Mr. Smith’s knowl.
edge of Mr. Erskine’s instructions, and Mr.
Jackson denying the existence of any suc h
instruction. But this is no whew, nn
pretended. Because, aifaras Mr. Intelli
gencer has thought nw«t to deal out any
lighttolhe people, no other ins'iuctions are
teierred to than those, ol the 21st of Janua
ry, (i) which every cue has seen, and
which no one affirms ju-sly such an arrange
ment as Erskine made, and whioh Smith (io
nics ever having seen previous to the ar- :
rangeinenl. II • v thwn, is this cnt-.ngle- I
inent tube unraveled? Jlpw is the mystery >
to bt elucidated? (j) The Intelligencer'
says, Mr. SCiilh deniei seeing certain in- |
smictious—Mr. Jacksui says lie did ; there 1
it cuds. But Jackson lince declares* that
he has Smith’s own idmissioo—(kJhere
then the entjniry < gain rests ; and the sub
ject would seem properly suspended until
the publication of liie letter, or the denial of
its having been writtet. But flic British
minister introduces anrihc iar.t, which it
would seem had been extroverted, of which
the Intelligencer has sad nothirg. (f)
This claims attention A-. it has been be
lie» ed, and is still believed, that the late ar
rangement was made '»nrp«s;ely to |>e brf>
ken, before the fall ’elections; and as it has
been aliedged, that Mr Et;>kire had srer-f
instructions, may lint tits thenb.ive been the
plight in which Mr. Smith found himself.—
Having been some liov or other (and we
wonder how) induced to admit fif Mr. Jack
son writes truth) Mr. Eeakine * instructi
ons ; (m) considering {Oerhar that sx.li
. ; •• * •
an admission fn J couIJ be of no very greit
importance, inasmuch as Mr. Erskine’s fa
ther had relied upon these, in his pamphlet
written in the detcvee of his son, as suflict
ent lo juettjy the arrangement concluded hy
him, and since disavowed hy the British
government, Mr Smith finds* that he has
done too much,and by such an admission, (o)
has acquitted the British government of all
ill faith, which be discovers subsequently in
his correspondence, to be necessary to rely
upon, and deems it expedient to intimate to
Mr. Jackson, the existence of secret instruc
lions ; which Mr. Jackson nnequix>ocally
tlcnice. {ft) \\ hit then arc Mr. Smith al
ternatives* Why, Tie must either stick to
it that such secret instructions existed, and
hi the end prove their cxister.ee, anti account
for his knowledge of them; stand convicted
ot a lie; or break up the oending neg tciati
ation. He prefers the last. (,/ ) As to
the former ones, hi* dilemma is palpable;
for it is not sufficient that Mr. S. should con
jecture the existence of seciet instructions,
to warrant hi* predicating an at guuient up
on them to Mr. Jackson. Now, whether
there were seci et instructions or not is one !
of these sort of tacts which could not lie gat
at by discussion, without some sort of evi
dence, and ms it never has been admitted by
the British government or any of its repre
sentatives that there ever were any such in
structions, it surely cannot for a moment be
contended that liter surmise. Conjecture or
belief of our secretary formed a basis for ne
g’elation on that point ; nor c»41d his posi
live assertion be admitted, unaccompanied
by any proof or assurance, either that lie had
seen such secret instructions, or that the
late minister had admitted tin** such were
in Ins possession. But it would not do to
assert positively it knowledge of Mr. Era
kilie’s secret instructions, a tier protesting
total ignorance of any instructions at all.—
il worn a iuu omy convict him ot a tormer
talsehood, but thereby render his word ques
tionable in any present declaration ; for who
would believe that Mr. Smith could get a
sight of a secret instruction, ami never ob
tain a perusal of those, which were open Ik
not intended for concealment, and perfectly
at the disposal of Mr. Erskine?
May it. not be thus? (r) (The writer
then goes on in the same way of ingenious
su/i/tosilions, to prove why the Secretary of
■■jiate should have preferred the alternative
of “breaking up the pending negociation”—
and alter having thus most correctly played
the part of the historian, he then, with r
qual liberality and ease, taitos upon himself
the character of the firofthrt. Mark then
the predictions of this wonderful wi:»zard :)
Mr. Smith Hk.es n«'t nny of the alterna
tives but last, winch possesses an additional
advantage to that of getting rid of Mr. Jack
son : and this is no other than the gaining
time for another arrival from J*'ranee, which
the urgency ot the British minister was not
iavourable to. And it the arrival should
not be satisfactory and another negociation
necessary to be opened with England, it need
not be considered a wonder, if Secretary
Smith, finding that although mystery anil
doubt suit the purposes of guilt, for the con
cealment or defence of crime, yet, for its
farther perpetrations, i; is expedient some
times, that art and hypocrisi shall give place,
and an attitude ot desperate boldness assurn
ed. He may /ierhafis believe it necessary
to lie boldly, (*) and Machiavellike, deter
mine it the lesser evil, to save his reputation
at the loss of conscience (f) and resolutely
declare, that he saw Mr. Erskine’s secret
instructions, and that nothing hut a matter
of great state necessity, imposed on hiinby
his duty to hiscountry, could induce him to
reveal the true character of this transaction.
At present, if Mr. Jackson states facts, and
the National Intelligencer is not disowned
by the administration, we should not be sur
prised, if this is the course adofited by Mr
Smith, and that his only hope for belief would
he in the hatred, prejudice and all other o
diuni that can be contrived to be heaped up
! on Great-Britain, to bias the opinions of the
American people.
: kemakks.
CaJ Let ns piss over tii* miserable Stuff a*i
bo.it the adherents of Napoleon*, the virtues ot T.
Pickering, and the machinations of French parti*
zuns. Believe them who may !
("bj The fat is, which show that these Orders
were not onlv most strongly expected, but were a
leading motive to this measure, are these : *
1 hat Extracts and letters announcing their
existence, were published in our Newspapers,
and seen at Washington. 2 That letters were
received and published in this place from mem
bers nt Congress in Washington, not only speak
ing of these Orders, but pointingout the Em
bargo a-our best shield sgrinst tncm. and these
letters were of a prior date «o the President’s I
message, recommending the Embargo. 3. That
li'om the very tone of the ministry and the senti
ments which they had expressed on the dis
cussion ot those ot January, there -were rea
sons to believe that some such sweeping orders
as tnese would have been issued, more especial
ly after the French Decree had been carried into
effect in the case of the llorison.
CeJ And what say written, incontrovertible
documents in opposition to these hold and un
blushing assertions ? Mr. Pinkney’s letter to Mr.
Canning, of August 23, IKu8, uses these expres
sions : 4‘I have the honor to s ate to you. Sir,
tbit is was the intention of the President, in case’
C». B. repealed her orders, as regarded the U.S.
to exercise the power vested in him hv the act of
the I iM session of Congress, emi 1 d“ ui act to
authorise the president of t?ie Unit* il States, un
der certain conditions, to suspend the operation of
the art lav tigan embargo on all ships arid vessels
i'i the no* is jiid li tt h irs of the U S ” hv stisnend
ing the embargo law aini its supplements, re
gards G. U—/ ’in author ised to tyre you this as
surance in the mast formal manner ; and 1 trust
that upori impartial enquiry it w ill be found to
leave no in.iuccui-nt to perseverance in the Bri
l’ .h orders, w ole it creates the most powerful
inducements of equity ami po:y to abandon
them ’—Now, bow Mauds the virucity ofllievin
• l:c itnr of Jackson!
(<tj Tins is not the paint—the print is dirt Mr.
Jackson chose to throw the Lie. dire t into the
ii ctu of the Seer -t iry of State, by repeating the
insinuation that the instructions «.» Mr. E. had
been submitted to Mr Smith, after that gentle
man had assured him of the coup-ary—f>r which
Mr. J. w.is told anil d. - -rvedly too, that his corn
mil ,cations w.th the / ’vu ic*u government were
at an end.
(ej Tins point is here mistaken. What is the
rad git of the question ? It is not, whether these
three conditions were submitted tj the Secretary
ol State, iv>r whether t\\t-y for med the substance
of the instructions, hut whether they were known
by the S.-rreUry of State to have formed the sine
nua non of K’s instructions ?—Unless he knew
this fact, there was no sin in concluding tVe ar
r/ngvment with Krskme—And yet so lar is Mr.
Smith fro-* admitting this, that he even expressly
mvl fifPcni)'1 Arilv denies it.
(J) What H inny eyitVocation f Mr. Smith did
liot admit, wliai Jackson had ofon him_
on the oontrary lie denied the insinuations of Jack*
son. Jt was because Jackson re-echoed tin sc in
sinuations in the very tect'i if the denial, that the
door was Closed against hnn—Mr. Warner has
lowest’ only jept--.ittd the v-jfiivocr.tior. wi J c.
tions of Mr. . nr' 9.
what suvj his” Circula
ted, that certain propotitiont had be-n .
Him by Mr. E- Mr. J,ck,,m tHrm,,,,
ft tea from the issue. In Ins circular, he states u:i
admission of Mr. Smith, which » nothing «t J
V’ l*>e. pitrpose-be dares not state tint
Mr. S.Admitted a fiact-on which every thing
ge«—is one, which Jackson had brought forvrnid
. correspondence, hut which he keens om
nt view in his Circular. As we have said L„u.
the question is not whether Mr. S. had c«. i»n
conditions proposed to him, hut whether he
knew Hint these were to he the tin-yua non uf
the urrangement-yet this is the very pom
which Mr. J skips over in his Circular, thorn-,
he ti les to pm m upon us an ndm ssion by Air.
brnith ol ll.e first fact, as an admission oftlie last.
( Xj Did Mr. S know it was so ?
C>‘ J Equivocating sophist • These are not the
ruto facts, about which such an uproar has been
raised. “ The facts, which Ind •. utsed the up
! '*’a'" **r?7'T!‘a- M,r- J-charged t!.c Secretary of
State with having known the instrucli^n. of Mr
t'*nd U»w gentlein.ii denied the charge,
charged Inin with a breach of truth, by repeat
ing the insinuation.
( ij He means “ the 23rd of January.”_Tins
is all ttuff—perfectly irrelevant \a the"subject !
(jj 1 liei ft is no entanglement hut in this man’s
brains ! No mystery, but m bis own confusion—
but if he is really acquainted with the facts
wlru a miserable prevaricator must lie be !
j ^Mr. Jackson s..v:i no such thing—in hi*
Circular,” he merely m ues that Mr. S. had ad,
milted, that certain conditions had been submit
t;.-d to him—but. not that lie had seen tlie instruc
tions.
( V ^Ve have tills fact bye and iyr -wlie
ther it has been really controverted or not, the
•oirespoiulencc, when before us, will s -rve to
show.
fmJ “Induced to admit (ifMr. J. writes
trtnlijj Mr F.rskme’s instructions.”_Here seems
a chasm in the copy—it is likely that the words
“ that lie had seen” have been left out_Suppo
sing this to be Ilia cme, Mr. Wagner does note*
veil understand Mr. Jackson—will he be pleased
to point out any passage, in which Mr. J. says,
that Mr. S had admitted, that he had seen Mr.
E’s instructions ? The only thing which Mr. J."
asserts in his circular to have been admitted by
Mr. 5. is, that certain conditions had been laid be
f >re him but not that he had seen the instruct!*
ms of Mr E.
CnJ Where is this admission >—We demand
i<, production—or even any hint of it in the circu
lar ot Mr. Jackson.
C°J Again ail * • admission”—again we deny it.
CpJ wnether Mr. Smith has “ intimated the
exis.ciice ol secret instructions,” ill his corresnon
lence with Jackson, we Know not—that will show
—hut that he has done it in the way here pointed
*»it, or Jrom the motives assigned to him, we po
s lively deny. This whole chain of suspicion
hangs upon the single link of Mr. S’s admission
—which is no where to be found.
CqJ 1 ugenious clue indeed ! How keenly he
penetrates into the most secret recesses of the
heart of Mr. S —The misfortune is, that he [a
mistaken in the cause of this ruptur -—instead 0y
solving it by the facts before us, he flies into *
world of hisown creation—he tries to trace it up to
an aumissiou of Mr. Smith, which never existed
instead of ascribing it to his denial of a certain
assertion, and to the indecorous repetition of it by
K. J Jackson.
CO Stuff! Stuff! All Stuff! And may not
the moon be made of Green Cheese, most pro
found nhilesopher ?
CsJ ) o nc indeed !
CO What excessive lib :rality !
:X7“ Such is the defence of F. J: Jackson.
To such :i pitch of madness, hus the fory <si
his partizans arisen, that every thing like
*American is trampled under foot. The ba
sest charges aro urged against the Executive
without the slightest proof—The Secretary
ol State is pictured as a liar and a hypocrite
-vithouc the least check from the scru
ples of conscience or the dangers of detection
Such is the desperate boldness to which the
advocates of the Exadnister are driven 1
Such is the species of d fence to which the
“Federal Republican,” the boldest of the
advocates whom he has yet enlisted in hi*
service, are compelled to resort_/.*•; the
people judge !
Of The news from Liverpool, is important.’
The British hopes of a renewal of ko
ties, in Austria, have vanished—The firir.y ’l,‘*
Tower Guns over the ashes of Napoleop ■ °* l*>«
poned—The ice has cooled his bruins / •**
has abated ! And like the rest of JfVfr
v hich have been circulated respe
Fas sened onlv as theprelndj tr, ~ ,lim’ l,ns
cesses—He has made peace with a ' c.new s<*c
eJ new acquisitions of 'e' ritorv a-M -a"*'"^^*
and extinguished even the emben. of a SITS””
htion, in the house of Lorraine ew Gua
l hfcae aie the times, for Britain to yield ns im
lice, or tor us to exact it ! y 61 us jus
Richmond heater.
The public are respectfully informed, in future there
will he n9 postponement on account of weather.
On Friday Evening, December 1, 1809, wifi u
preaen-ed, (for the .econd time her,) a c i,
hrated Tragedy, in 5 acts, written by M
Lewis, author of the Castle Spectre, jjl, * „
kc. lie. called, 1 4 JUe‘7*orn*
ADELGITIlA:
THE FRUITS OFJjWgle ERRQr
To which will he added, (for the second time here)
t/ienew and favorite. Farce, of ’
PLOT AND COUNTERPLOT •
or,
! J1JS. J'VRTRAir OJ- UERVAJYTES.
To-Mjrrow Evening ( Saturday) will be present
od the Opera nf the
MO UJYTAIJYE E RS,
j To which will he ad led for the last time this sea
son the Grand Allegorical Spectacle of
CINDIR E L L A ;
OR, *
THE LITTLE CLASS SLIPPER.
Qf Doors to be opened at 5, the Curtain to rise
at 6 o'clock
V In future the day* if performance will be on
Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday.
November 24, 1KU9.
pHEESF.; MATS, SALT-PETRE. GUN
POW DER-A consignment of Coloured
Cheese of sujierior quality, in c i»k« and boxes
jiiit received.
A I »rgt and general assortment of gentlemen’*
Silk Beaver and Farr HATS.
English refined Salt-Pe i re,
F and FF glared and rough Oux-Pawtisa,
ron SALK, hr— '•
D‘ J’ m/I*w
December 1. 2aw2m
Vp NOCH SULLIVAN, ha, removed his Shop
Ala and business, to the same hou«e occupied by
Wtn McCay, witch-maker, opposite Mr Wm.
Cor. k's
jj'rerrber 1. wiw