The enquirer — Richmond, Va., 1810-03-09 00:00:00, page 3

pran goods already in the hands of our mer
chants.
Mr. IV. Alston observed that the subject
being already specially referred to the com
mittee of Ways ami Means, there cuuld be
no necessity for passing these resolutions, un
less gentlemen deemed the committee too
slow, and wished to spur them up.
Mr. Jihta observed that if the doctrine of
the gentleman from Rhode Island (Mr. Pot.
ter) was correct, it would be a reason why
iso duties should ever have been laid. If
former Legislatures had acted with such
\icws, there never would have been any re
venue raised. The gentlemen from the Eas
tern states ought tube the last to oppose such
a measure ; because, ns they were engaged
more in manufacturing than any other por
tion of the union, every additional duty
would operate to their advantage. The sub
ject might be collaterally before the commit
tee of Ways and Means, but he wished par
ticularly to point their attention to it.
Mr. AT Aim observed that this appeared
to him to he a time when the United *States
ought sedulously to cultivate their own re
sources. When our commerce was on all
sides interrupted, he wished not to see our
infant manufacturing establishments depres
sed by permitting foreign manufactures to
compete with our own on advantageous
terms-and therefore he hoped the resolu
tions would pass and some such measure be
adopted.
Mr. Van Horn hoped the resolution would
not pass It appeared to him that every
measure coming before the house was calcu
lated to depress the price of the produce of
the agriculturalist and to raise the price of
imported articles. Why ought this tjme
particularly to be selected for raising the
duties on imported goods, when ti e importati
on ot such goods was absolutely interdicted by
law ? 1 he very reference of these propositions
to the committee of Ways 8c Means, be said,
would have an effect to raise the prices of the
goods on hand. Jt was not a proposition to
lay discriminating duties-he never would
consent to tax agriculture for the purpose of
raising up manufactures, lie wished to see
manufactures flourish but not at the expence
of agriculture.
Mr. Potter said that the duties on imports
were already as high as they ought to be.—
In the state which he represented there were
perhaps more manufactories of cotton than
in all the United States besides, llut he
would not, to make them still greater, de
press agriculture. The profits of the manu
facturer were besides already sufficiently
large. While the agriculturalists for some
time past had not made two per cent, on
their capital, the manufacturers had made
from 50 to 100 ccr cent, and ‘become enor
mously rich.
Mr. Ehea. was not certain that he should
be ior increasing the duties, but he wished a
full report on the subject. That manufac
tures would do injury to the agricultural in
terest was a paradox, he said, more talked
about than understood. If the United States
consume as much produce as was exported,
would not agriculture be bepfhttefl by tpe
encreased demand tor produce ? Every thing
tending to lessen the importation of foreign
merchandize went to the benefit of agricul
ture.
Mr. Macon was willing to refer the sub
ject, though he would not agree to tax the
agriculturalist for the benefit of the ma
nufacturer. He did not fear the effect of a
reference on the market. Numerous peti
tions, praying an increase of duty on import
ed hats, had been referred to a commit
tee ; but he presumed the reference of those
petitions bad not raised the price of hats.
Mr. E/i/ies observed, that on the eighth
of Januury the committee of Ways and
Means had addressed a letter to the Secre
tary of the Treasury, asking how far the
duties on goods imported into the United
States, could be increased without detriment
to the revenue ? The committee had been,
since that time, in daily e? jv t.uion of an
answer, on which they intended to act so
soon as it was received.
On motion of Mr. J.ivermore, the reso
lution.-. were ordc; ;d to lie on the table.
A report was received from the Secretary
of State enclosing ihe re-' it of the Attorney
General on the siihj*. . of me batture, which
was called tor by the House on Tuesday
last. 7
A reportwas received from the Treasu
rer tlie United tilhtes enclosing the ac
counts of his office forthevear past.
BATTUKfe.
the committee of the whole was refused
leave to sit again on the subject.
Mr. Eoindextcr offered an additional re
solution, going to make the Mayor of New
Orleans u party in a suit to tA instituted to
try the title in any circuit court ot the United
States, wljerjj an impartial trial maybe
had, with appeal to the Supreme Court as
in ordinary cases.
The various resolutions on this subject,
were ordered to lie on the table and be print
ed. 1
DETACHMENT OF MILITIA;
The House resolved itself into a commit
tee of the whole py the bill authorising a
detachment from tbejnilitia of the United
States.
Alter progress therein, (the details of
which hereafter,) the committee rose, re
ported progress and wbtamed leave to sit
again.
1 he following mesrage was received from
the President of the U States:
1 o the Senate and House of Kcfiresentu
fives of the United Slates ;
I now lay before you copies of the treaties
concluded with the Delaware, Putawatamie,
Miami, Eel Hiver and Wea tribes of Indians,
for the extinguishment ol their title to the
lanes therein described, and I recommend
to the consideration of Congress, the making
provision by law lor carrying them into ex
ecution.
JAMES MADISON.
T’eb. 28,1810.
v°11 —Earthen Ware in crates assort
A rd,
Green Coffee, Loaf Sugar,
Wrjtingand Wrapping Paper, and
O! ! rectified Whiskey of $JiC very heat qual
ity, by
Win. V/. DICKINSON.
. _W ^ch PL__ __ _ 15tbA
| 1 '1 HEcijyip and pOR >; iby
« WMU) Hallam,
Port and Madeira Wines*
A few hogsheads Treacle,
New Ymk Tallow ?t Spcrmacetti Candles.
Salad Oil, Prune*, fresh Teas, uc. kc
March (>. tf
Nf-tdUifiS SA1.K—In addition to the
Negroes advertised for sale by Wro. lin.
1"""<• Edward Hook«r, trustees for Messrs.
Deane’s ere liiors, the subscriber will offer for
»<ie, at nerd Cumberland March Court, twenty
six Negroes, for cash.
,. . „ GEORGE PERKINS.
f . jaw6iA,4
(Cl)t oBnciuiccr.
RICHMOND, MARCH 9, 1810.
FOR THE ENQUIRER. *
THE CEJYTIj\EL A o. /.
To the 1le/itiblican fiarty ! !
A wake ; arise ; the Philistines be upon yon
anti find you shorn of your strength. Is this
a sleep into which ye are fallen ? Alas !
it much resembles the sleep of death : or is
it a political apoplexy, in which it is only
necessary **iat you should lie let blood, to
revive you?—That operation is performed.
Look to New-York: the Federalists have
taken that state; against your friends there,
they have commenced a war of utter ex
termination, root and branch, and given you
a sample of what you are to expect when
they get the general government. Shake off
this lethargy before it be too late. While
yet you may be saved, break from this lea
den sleep; start from this fatal trance.
Arouse; look about you ; see the progress
which your political enemies have already
made, and the total and overwhelming ruin
with which they threaten you. Do you not
see that the republican minority, the sole
authors of the federal ves\irrectisn, have
thrown themselves into the arms Sc bosom of
that party ; have become completely incorpo
rated withnliem; and that this united body,
from one end of the continent to the other,
are making a series of systematic, most vi
gorous and most persevering efforts to over
turnyour power and mount, tin mselves, into
the seat of authority? And what have you
to expect from their success ?
I beg you to pause upon this question, and
put it over again in the most solemn form
to yourselves. Consider the past, and then
ask, what have you to expect from the suc
cess of the federalists and minority ? Look
at the colour of their sentiments on the floor
of Congress, and then doubt,;f you can, that
as to our foreign matters the first thing will
be a British atliance ; and the fate of eve
ry Hritish ally on the liurofiean continent ?
I appeal to experience, ask.if for these last
tun years, at least, the alliance of G. Britain
has not been the unerring prognostic of ruin
to the ally ? Whether the cause of British
friendship has not uniformly chalked out the
track of French victory and tyranny?_
Whether as soon as British attachment has
marked the object, the lightning of France
has not been ever ready to fall and blast it ?
Whether G. Britain, in fact, instead of pro
tecting those whom she professed to befriend,
has not merely played the jackall, the Li
on’s provider to France, and in hunting up an
ally, merely hunted up a victim for her per
suer?
irmc will still follow this course; she must
follow it, for it is a policy which is essen
tial to her salvation. She is playing a game
of chess with the emperor of France ; and
as soon as he gives check to her king, she
must interpose another piece or the game is
up, for her king has no move. And as long
as she ciu^she will continue to interpose a
nother untill the hoard is cleared, and
her own ruw can be no longer suspended.—
She has already done the business with Eu
rope ; she has gone on interposing state af
ter state, until Bonaparte has taken them
all; and it is in this extremity, that she
looks across the Atlantic to us.
Are we prepared to serve her turn ?_
Are we ready to move in between her and
Bonaparte, and take the blow which is aim
ed at her ? When did she deserve this sa
crifice at our hands? V/as it in the begin
ning of the 17th centgry, when for their re- !
ligious opinions, she drove out our ancestors,
with fire and faggot, from their native land ; <
and afterwards followed them with her ty
ranny into this vrestern forest ? Was it in
’65 when she passed the stamp act; or in ’75
when in enforcing it, she carried fire and j
sword through our land ? Was it by an un
provoked, unjust, cruel and unrelenting war,
waged against us, for eight years, with the ;
aid of savages who spared neither age nor!
sex, and who covered the land with blood
and conflagration ? Or was it by the insidi- i
ous peace of 1783 which has proved to us,
only wai' in disguise—a war upon our com
merce, and our neutral rights—a war to all
the purposes of plunder, capture, imprison
ment and death-witness the lawless con
demnations of our ships, die multiplied bank
ruptcies of nur merchants, the groans of
thousands of our citizens in British dunge
onr,, far from their parents, wives, children,
brothers and friends, the blood of Pierce
which still cries to heaven for vengeance,
and the cowardly slaughter of the Chesa
peake, over which the honor of the nation
still blushes and weeps? Was it, I ask, by
conduct like this that G. Britain has enti
tled herself to expect that we will step in be
tween France and her?
“ But Great Britain, they tell us, is fight
“ ing the battles ot the world ; her navy is
“our shield ; and in joining with her, we
“are only making head against the. common
••enemy ot the world.” 1 his is the very
argument which has ruined every slate in
Europe—it has been urged to them all, one
after another; one after another has been
seduced by it ; and one afier another, they
have fallen in rapid succession. Would you
avoid their fate, reject this stale argument,
whose refutation is written in the blood of
Europe ? Would you avoid their fate, avoid
the fatal friendship of Great Britain; and
would you avoid the latter, awaken all your
energies and counteract with equal vigor
the machinations of the federalists and mi
nority combined,* Bee in what perfect con
cert they are moving. Mark their vigilance,
industry, dexterity and boldness. Look at
thtir elaborate and indefatigable operations
m Congress and the State ' Legislatures —
Lock at the constant intriguing, mining,
preaching, working of their agents and e
missarics in evely quarter ot the Union._
Look nt the Herculean labors of their pres
ses ; mark how perfectly consentaneous
! their movements ; how the same argument,
the same objection, sounded by the federal
ists, is echoed back by the minority and a
gain reverberated by the federalists, in or
der to swell the clamor and make a show
iof force and strength which, in fact, they
have not. Have they not, in the hardiest spirit
of adventure, dispatched a partisan to the
metropolis of Virginia, in order to teach us
Yankey politics under the character of a
Virginia Patriot? And has not this youth,
following up the spirit of his mission, under
taken to convince us, that codfish is bacon,
and-rancid train cnl, the essence of harn?
A youth, born and bred up in the rancour and
intolerance of New-England federalism, set
tled in Richmond to teach politics to Vir_
jginians! Who would have expected this in
I 1/98 ? Who would have expected it on the
i jpuriyus 4th of March 1801 A
I.ct us. however, mark the fact, and read
in it a proof of that settled ami regular sys
teni which the federalists have formed, and
on which they are working to get the go
vernment again into their hands. Are you
willing, that they should ge* the government
into their hands? Have you forgot
ten the excise, the stamp act, the direct
tax, and the whole stupendous load of inter,
nal taxes under which tile farmer was bow
ed down and b oken? Have you forgotten
he eight percent, loans in time of peace?
And in spite of all this, the accumulation
of the public debt, threatening the nation
with an irredeemable mortgage or a total
bankruptcy ? Have you forgotten the passi
on for standing armies and navies? Have
you forgotten the swarm of executive depen
dants, that covered the land and blighted
its prosperity? Have you forgotten the la. 1
(itude given to the Constitution, by construe
tion, and the inclination which was perpe
tually betraying itself, to screw up the Pre
sidential chord to the tone of monarchy ?
And, finally, to defeat any concerted resis
tance against these inroads upon our free
dom, do you remember the fatal sedition
law; waving its leaden sceptre over the
land, and robbing us even of the poor conso
lation of complaint?
Do you wish such another night, so dark,
so cold, to return and cover our liberties?
If you do not, I say again, shake off the tor
por which has benumbed you-call up all
your spirit; unite all your strength;- oppose
vigilance to vigilance, and concert to’con
cert. It is only by such a contest, that
truth can have fair play, and with fair play,
the will /irevail.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE ENQUIRER.
SIR,
I retd will* pleasure your account of Mr.
Fulton’s Torpedoes in the Enquirer of tile 2.'!d
February. The policy or impolicy of Congress
aiding Uie ingenious inventor hi bis experiments,
is a question which it is not my design to discuss ;
nor do I mean to'enquiie into tha humanity or
inhumanity ot a Torpedo war. TJiese are sub
jects properly belonging to the politician and the
moralist. 1 only wish through the medium of
your paper to make a tew remarks upon that part
ot the Torpedo system which appears to me most
defective, and to suggest such alterations as I
think may produce with more certainty the desir
ed effect.
As regards those Torpedoes called by ^Ir.
Fulton “ anchored Torpedoes," it seems to me
that they are not calculated to answer the intend
ed purpose so well as the Harpoon Torpedoes —
For supposing with the inventor, that two hun
dred of the former were placed in three miles of
channel through which the enemy were to pass ;
it would be no difficult matter for each ship of
war *,o provide herself with sweepers, one fixed to
the head and another to the stern, which neces
sarily striking the lever of the anchored 'Torpe
do sooner than any other part of the ship, an
explosion would instantaneously take place with
out any material injury to the vessel. These
sweepers, it is evident, might he variously con
structed and fitted to the ship only when occa
sion required, ’i he anchored 'Torpedoes arc also
liable to another objection ; for the channel in
which they are placed would be, for the time
being, equally dangerous to our own vessels as
to those of the enemy, unless the pilots were
well acquainted with the spots in which they are
sunk ; and even then, accidents might frequent
ly occur. The Torpedoes, which, in my opinion,
will prove our most formidalde defence and most
dreadful to the enemy, are the harpoon Torpe
does. The improvement of thase well deserves
our particular attention.
I lie greatest defect in Mr. Fulton’s system of
attack with this species of Torpedo, appears to
be the mode of conveying it immediately under
the bottom of the enemy, and of calculating by
clock-work the time when the explosion should
take place. 1 he plan which Mr. Fulton points
out, although extremely ingenious, must fre
quently fail and prove a’aortivo. Mr. Fulton also
supposes, that the attack “ unless in a case of
great emergency) should be in the night:' But I
am rather of opinion, that an opportunity would
seldom be offered of attacking the enemy in the
night, Sc if an attack were to lie made in the day,
it would be almost impossible that a row boat
could approach a ship of war within the distance
of sixty feet, the distance which Mr. Fulton pro
poses, without running the most imminent hazard
of being dc-troyed. A greater distance thnn this
also, would not produce the desired effect, ac- |
cording to the present plan. Ail alteration in
this respect, I therefore beg leave to suggest, as
also another mode of firing the powder in the
Torpedo, in place of clock-work, which must
render the critical moment of explosion very un
certain.
The nearest distance which 1 would propose
for the row boats to advance towards the enemy,
would he one hundred yards ; and in place of the
harpoon having an eye in which the line of the
Torpedo is spliced, I would have an harpoon
with a small pulley in place of the eye, over which
the line ot tlies Torpedo might pass. Jf one
iiuqdred yards he the distance fixed upon for the
row-boat to approach, the length of the Torpe
do line must necessarily be two hundred, for one
extremity of the Jineis supposed to he made fas^
to the Torpedo, 5t the other extremity to the stern
of the row-boat, while the centre of the line passes
over the pulley of the harpoon. When the har
poon is fired, the Torpedo is dropped into the
water, and if the harpoon be seen to take eflect
in the head of the cnemy’3 ship, then the row
boat makes off in an opposite direction and draws
the Torpedo towards the pulley of the harpoon,
in the same manner as any power raises a weight
by means of a pulley. In this ease the Torpedo
may be called the weight and the row-boat tjie
power. According to Mr. Fulton, a row-boat
can run with the velocity of one hundred and
forty yards a minute. Therefore, in one minute
at most, the Torpedo might be brought with cer
tainty under the enemy
Iii place ol producing the explosion of the Tor
pedo by means of clock-work, as Mr Fulton has
practised, I would recommend the introduction
of a principle which I do not believe lias ever yet
ih-cii introduced in the art of war ; although 1
am confident’ it will be found productive of the
most astonishing effects. The principle I mean
is the electrical fluid. It is wcil ascertained hy
experiment, that gunpowder may be fired by
means of a conducting wire 600 yards, and I
have no doubt if the experiment were tried, it
might be fired at any distance ; but 1 confine my
self at p esent to facts and not to hypothesis. For
the present purpose, it however would be neces
sary, as the conducting wire would have to pass
through water which is itself a conductor, that
it sliotdd be coated strongly or encrusted with a
coat of pitch or wax. The mode which 1 would
propose is this : I.el a string, such as Electricians
use to raise electrical kites, he covered first with
silk, afterwards coated with pitch or wax, and
lastly covered with leather, to defend it from the
water. Let this be connected with the powder
and combust ible matter in the Torpedo in the
manner practised in those experiments when
gunpowder is fircu, and let this conductor be at
least two hundred yards in length, so that when
' the Torpedo is brought under the bottom of the
enemy, the other extremity of the conductor may
he in the row-boat. When the Torpedo is known
to he under the enemy’s ship, which can be ea
sily ascertained by the row-boat stopping, from
the line of the Torpedo being fully extended ;
then an electrical discharger may be applied to the
conductor and a buttery or large jar previously
charged, which will immediately produce an ex
plosion of the Torpedo,
e * - "
Tli'-s method .>.p prodnmng a suecesifldexpl •
s.r.n, I fe» l confident, will ho much' more certain
than a gun barrel and clock-work, for the captsin
ol the row-b at wilt have it completely in Ids
power to produce the explosion of the Torpedo
at any given moment.
^Ihc electrical principle I have long thought
might be successfully employed in vanous ways
in the art of war, but as it would he difficult to
detail toe ideas I have on this Subject without
the,assistance of engravings, I shall beg leave to
conclude these few remarks with sincerely wish
ing the ingenious inventor of the Torpedo sys
tem every encouragement which his tal-ttts me
rit- , J- W.
Academy, Hichr'-nnd )
March 4, 1310- 5
PKOGUESS OF MANUFACTURES-.
Att!J,orou;.’h, (Mast.) Uth /■>/>. 1810.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE ENQUIRER.
SIH—1 have proposed, through the medium of
your paper, to convey to the public l|ie progress
of the arts in the United States, as fur us my in
formation, and the time I can spare, will admit.
Early in 1808, I was indulged with an opportuni
ty ot’viewing tlie then progress in the northern
and eastern states—To begin with the cotton
spinning business, which has attracted my atten
tion ; 1 11»»st 1 shall not he incorrect in saying,
that in the early part of that year, Uu-re was not
ill motion ill the United Slates more than 20,000
spindles Since that time, the art has Spread
and the knowledge increased to a degree boyond
the most Haltering calculations. It is impossible
for me to he correct as u iiio number of spindles
which is agreed to be put in m' tion, and the
buildings now on the way to contain them ; hut
I trust 1 shall not he incorrect in saying, that to
the eastward ci the north river, which empties
itself into the hay at die city of New York, there
as establishments on the w >v and will shortly he
in motion, three hundred and fifty thousand spin
dles ; and in the middle states, the art has e\
[ irerricly encreased—and from authentic accounts,
the progress in South Carolina and Kentucky is
considerable, and in Virginia die art is progres
sing with success. Several establishments are
now on tiie way. It appears to me, upon re
viewing the progress in New England, that the
people of that pal t of the United Sines will be
able in a few years to spin cotton for tin? whole
world. If I may judge from the progress during
the last 18 months, I may say that, in three years
from this time, there will be in motion in the U.
States one million of cotton-spinning spindle s —
The business will certainly be overdone, unless
the yarn becomes an article of exportation.
Many looms are now at work and the number
increasing with vast rapidity. As good looms
and weaving, as are any where to be found in the
U. S. are now in Alexandria, Va. lathe latter
end oT the last year, there came oyer from Man
chester, (Eng.) several families, with wlmm
there were several weavers, who were in indi
gent circumstances—but through the interposi
tir n and liberality of the inhabitants of that place,
the weavers have been put in a way to have looms
and warping machines made, and put to work.—
The wool manufactures increase greatly. I have
seen eletb in the city of New York, at ten dollars
per yard of the manufactory of that county, an
good as tiiat of 14 S price imported from Eng
land.
i nave not seen any proceedings ot tne Legis
lature of Virginia for giving encouragement to
the raising of sheep. It certainly is one of the
most important subjects that could occupy the
attention of that body. Nothing would contri
bute more to the prosperity and happiness of the
state, than a scheme tq raise wool sufficient to
supply tl»e inhabitants. No difficulty exists at
tins time in the practicability of manufacturing it.
In the state of Massachusetts, where much care
and exertions are practised towards increasing
the quantity and quality of wool, and where ma
ny (merino) sheep are shortly expected, the hope
and prospect is so flattering, that the estimate
is, that in ten years from this time, the fleeces
which will he shorn in that state, in the tenth
year from this time, will be worth one million of
dollars —And if the quantity should not increase
more per annum than 25 per cent, it will certain
ly increase at that or more. Tlda will soon be
come a source of much wealth
The raising of flax has of late been greatly en
couraged, and it is astonishing to see the nnm
ber of wheelwrights engaged in making flax
vjhtcls—in many parts of the eastern or northern
states the domestics appear to be entirely en
gaged in spinning flax.
There is scarcely an article in use which is not
manufactured in some quantity in this country—
and from the enterprise, industry and advantages
which we have in theU. S. Iam flattered with
a prospect that this will soon become a great, ji
not the greatest manufacturing country in the
world. I have bcc-n in a circle where sewing
silk is manufactured to a considerable extent,
and superior to any imported. Doubts will not
long exist, but we can manufacture every article
>ve may want.
Your most obedient,
RICHARD HARRIS.
No Aaiiotial Intelligencer—since our last
Marius, No. III.—on last page.
Extract of a letter from Washington, da
ted Eebruanj 22.
“Mr.-, is to be married this evening
to a most lovely girl, with fair skin, auburn
hair, elegant form, a fine intelligent face,
and not quite 17—He is as bold in love as
politics—I hope he will l»e equally power
ful—The odds may prove against him—but,
for youth, beauty and innocence combined
in a female form, even death itself may b»
risqued.”
Married—In Georgetown on the 22d
February, by the Rev. l)r. (luntt, the lum.
Wili.iam B. Gi r.ks, Senator in the Con
gress of the U. States, to Miss Francks
AnnGwtnn, eldest daughter of the late
Thomas Peyton Gwynn, of Virginia.
Died—In this City, on last Tuesday morn,
ing, Mis. Elizabeth Randolph, the
worthy anti lamented consort of Edmund
Randolph, Ksq. ■ ■ -in nil the relations ol
life, she was approved, beloved, admired
The society of R-nhmond has lost one of its
best ornaments-the poor, the best of pa
trons-her weeping family, the best ol
friends. A long and most respectable pro
cession of sympathizing acquaintances at
tended her to the grave.
i.fjua jiuyuna,
AS just received a supply of ROOKS, a
, mong which are the following new l’gbli
cations, viz :
Anthon’s American Precedents of Declara
tions-Anthon’s Analytical Abridgement of
Ulackstone’s Commentaries—Vol. 4 Johnson's
New York Term Reports, and Vol. 3 Heking
8s Mun ford’s R ports—Subscribers are re
quested to call fo - their copies—Subscribers to
the M iscr oca MP.ou j Ci. asii c.* »re also request
ed to call for the I7tb, 18;h and 19lh vols.
Cheatham's Life of Paine—KmdaH’s Travels
through part of »ho l/rtiied State;*, 3 vols—Hen
ry’s Travels and Adventures in Canada and the
Ind an territories—A'so, an assortment of fami
ly Bibles hum fry 3 50 tolbdo'.larj—A general
assortment of Law, M hcgua.ved vs ft School
BOOKS *« usual.
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C II A R I R S T O .V M AIL.
London prints to 6th of January received.—
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Pinkney, to prance, perhaps with news of luck*
son’s rupture—not pci mitu-dtn land at Calais --
lie was lohl Morlaix was tlic only place opgu to
c.-rtels—to which port lie sailed on 3d Jur.
!) /* December 27, Mr. Oakley arrived in
the New \ ofk pneket, with despatches en
closing the P. U. S. message-The docu
ments were‘printed on the 2d, 3d, See. cf
Juu.-the cfi/tosition prints arc for us——
tney say, if J. had no powers to substitute
pi ojxositions, why send him—to generate
an angry anil hostile feeling ”—The merits
of the case itself not canvassed-but the
result is, what they say, they expected front
tho temper, ike. of the missionary.
An Embargo, on this side the water,
was expected. Sattsom and Tutmo, of the
j American Committee, waited on ministers
i to know their intentions—no conclusive
; answer given -reason, that the subject had
not received that full examination which its
importance required. *
A dispute between Perceval and \V\ iesley isj
rumored—also, that V will go cut, and Canning,
tr.—Augireau officially states, Geron.i capitulated
t>n ICi' i December. Tho troops of garrison,
(5000) go to France as prisoners —The 5000 men
• or Poitugal are to be sent under Wellington to
ijui't the riota^in India, or half of them are to aid.
hi dcic-viccoi the If N. American colonies.
Restrictions are increased in Denmark, £cc. on
vessels under American flag—they say from the
Kider, 3 ships under that fl-ig, had been stirtd
with lfritisii goods worth R 100 uOO sterling; —
1 kevu is a talk, that Napoleon weds the Princess
Royal of Saxony.
’I J THE EDITOR Of THE ESl^U 1 HER.
S I R,
The question* at foot, and Mr. Randolph’s
answers as certified by the* very respectable Gin*
tlemen, whose signatures ace subjoined, will at
once delect, and expose the unmanly and dishon
orable attempt which has been made to suppress
fact*, by the procuring and publishing the letter
signed by Mr. Randolph and dated the 23d ult.—
Unfortunate as that letter is, with respect to the
object intended, yet 13 it was written by Harry
fletli, ij derives importance on that account. In
it you will find this sentence : “It was moreo
“ ver, agreed between us, that in case the Coal
“ should fall short, the amount of such deficien
“ cy should be lodged by him in bank for me in
“ time to meet the notes, or that 1 should make
“ out new notes for the precise sum, and take in
“ the old ones.”—If this be correct, it follows or
course tint t lie holders of these notes, could net,
a matter of rifht, negotiate or pass them oft'
until the one oi the other of the conditions on
which they were received, had been complied
u*th—at.d thus is established the ground original
ly i iken by me This sentence is important in an
other point ot view, because it supercedes the
necessity of the very bonds, which op the 13tU
ultimo \yere asserted to hare been given ; in con
futing tliat statement, 1 observed that I had the
authority ol Mr. Randolph to say, that, no such
bond had ever been required, or ever given, and
it turns out, that 1 was corre't in so saying.
With icspel to the recovery o! the $ 2000, J am
still of the opinion, that 1 quoted Mr Ran ph’s
precise words ; he however says diflerentiy, buti
should it become necessary, that I should prove
that Mr. Heth lias used the words I attributed
to him—1 can do so on the testimony of a gentle
man who will not be doublet}—1 am thus partic
ular, because it is not my intention to pursue this
subject unless compelled to it in selfdefence.
1 abstain from any further remarks on the pro
priety of my offselts to the notes in controversy,
because that subject, and every other point of
pecuniary difference is to be decided by two gen
tlemen, to whom I shall at all times confide my
h gal rights with pleasure.
M. W. HANCOCK.
March 9.
Question 1.— Did you not inform me that the
bond which Mr. Heth in his publication of the
loth ultimo, stated had been given—Had never
been “ required or executed ?”
Answer—The bond was never required by me,
and was never executed.
Qua tion 2-—Pid you r.ot inform me, that Mr.
Heth observed to you in a conversation respect
ing his suit against nic, that if he did not recover
the g 2000, lie was at least entitled to recover iq
proportion, as 1 might recover from Mr. Ross ?
Answer.— Mr. lleth was positive, in his opinion,
that lie would recover the S 2000, lie s,i<l, that
if Cranberry and Hancock recovered the balance
of their claim against Ross, that he was at least
entitled to a proportion of their profits agreeable
pithe.su;u which he had paid ; which sum he
contended, ought to be considered as a part of the
slock of G and H. but this conversation Mr,
lleth says he does not recollect.
Question 3 — Did not Mr H< lh write the let
ter which you signed, dated the 23d ult.; did
you not sign it with reluctance, and are you not
now convinced that the letter, together with Mr.
Hetli’s manner of introducing it, is calculated tq
make false impressions ?
Answer — I wrote several letters and shewed
them to Mr. Heth ; he made objections to all of
them ; at last I wrote one which 1 gave him, and
observed, that that certainly was sufficient ; lie
kept dial letter, and the next day shewed me the
letter which was published, which letter was in
his hand writing, arid v. as, in substance the same,
but in rather stronger’language than 1 wished^
I ain convinced that Mr.Helh’s manner of publish
ing it has given the letter a very different bear
ing from that which I intended ; and 1 would
not have signed the letter, if I could have sup-'
posed that Mr Huih would have made any pub
lication to accompany it.
The foregoing questions by M. W. Hancock,
and answers by Richard Randolph, were made
belore us this 5U» day of March, 1810
E. W. ROUTES,
C J. MACMURDO,
H. H AX ALL.
PUBLIC AUCTION,
ON Tuesday the 13th Inst, at 11 o’clock, wtlj|
l e sojd at Public Auction, at John Crad?
dock’s Wharf,
»»<..im.li ow uarie's unue.r deeic, or 7/ nnus. tf|
and upon her, and is in exc llcnt ord^v—Aiso
FOUR LIKELY NEGRcVMEN.
FU and tw-elve months credit will be allowed
the Purchaser, and Nqiei with ippioved Endors
er-*, payable and negotiable at/ic Bank of Virgi
nia, recjuired. /
The above Property is so/to close a Concern
THOiy 1’AYLUU, Auct'r.
Richmond, March 9. / tds
PUR9UANT to a /ccd of trust executed Li
me by Charles A Gilliam, dated the 11th
of March, 1809 ; \/l b« sold to the highest b |.
der, j*thelaw dire/*, at Cumberland courthouse*
m Monday the/’ b day r.f this month (bein^
court day)two/tGRO SLAVAS, named 1 «\v,s
and Sally, for/urp0*es expressed m said d« / d
trust. /
/pCUIBAL D TAI LOR, 7> ,
Cartcr^l<5j March 9. l.dlO, v JwSt
THE SCHOONER
R R P U n L / C Afi ,
with all the /
TACKLEanu APP/KEL.