Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political — Alexandria [Va.], 1810-01-12 00:00:00, page 2

ON SPRlNG.
FThron'd on sost clouds, his locks with haw
' thorn bound, ' .
, Twin'd with young rose buds jocund spring
pears ;
"'The little violet by his smile he chcers,
Audiesdtes ptfimrose's to bloom around.
'in the chan—
NLGnouon said that notwiehmudiog
nued usibddnniy been aid on the cubject
=:s97n the mount he hoped he should
be occupying : mzn portion
of ctuncndon. The recoludon' debte
no, (do [them net-frame usivnsiasi ab,
ss i.e.-Mrs : to : a pin—
_ don-be wedded-non of nsi-ob ecu
with gaze faci'iogu
__ polieied With! which hue undiv
(fixes-clods pxcyﬂedumnpt brethren 2!
_ " 'X-VRITTEN IN WlNTER.
Aeriel Flore, sister of the spring,
'Arise, and let thy blooming form be seen :
- _g, Hoste! play thy youthsul fancies Oll the
green, -
'And from thy hand emhrosial odouts'ﬂing.
FÞ - .
siege my"; "Quid, her guardian's health and.
]OYv .
-ss Paesds by Me: CAnounx Snnlous, who
' dxed in England, in 1808, at the age of
, fourteen. * "
Scarce had thy veivet lips imbib'd "the ﬂew,
And nature sihail'd thee infant queen of
; ﬂsiy .'
Scarcesisaw-titine'epming bloom the aun's
broad ny, , , \
-' And to the air thy tender sragnuee threw :
si KVhen the host}! wind enamor'd of thee grew,
-*And by his cold rude kin thy ch'trmo de
" 'eay.
* Now th'oopssithine' head, now sadel thy blush
ing hue—:
No more the queen of ﬂow'rs,- no longer
, Her mihd amy'd in" innocency's vest:
When, suddenly in: tient to destroy,
Death clasps the vtrgin to his iron breast.
"She sides—The parent, llstcr, friend dcplore
'_ The cherma and budd'mg virtues now-no
more.
, _
"To his pleas'd' ear "the birds their carols
— sound,
And near his sect its head the sweet briar
"m . .
'Natuve *eXults to see her darling crown'd, "
And all the living scene his power revercs.
si'l'hen shall sweet eephyrs 'und prolit'tc show
. . en , . .
_ Succeed to pnrching winds and beating ruin,
fiVith their solt bulm rc-unimete the flowers,
—And- even gay cow-ups o'er the golden
plain :
Jheu srost no more shull waste the roseatc
' Alexandria My Gazcttc, si -
CUMMERCZAL ANÞ POLlTlCAL. si_
[to
-'.And chose hoar-winter with thy "nightly
mein- . _ .
Invite the sylvian choir to mit-e and sing-, .
'* While the sun sleepe in gold gpotr the
scene: . .
"so dress- the grove thy clunering here-bell
The hill k-valiey a ith'bright verdure spread,
The infent Ccrcs in her verdant gown.
"she various plant's which open in the mead,
'And sann'uig gale,-s his genisl presence own.
"But soon the rage os summer shall succeed,
And search-the sweets; vhich breathe in
( Spring's soft lap alone.
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KDEBATL'
siZON THE )OINT RESOLUTTDN,
Jppsoving the conduct qf the Executive
in "lution to the refusal to receive siany
further communication ﬂour-French jay.
ject-un. .
[courmmzsi] 4
silo eommittee of the whole Mr. annsi'
"" um)", lANUARY 12.
_ nwuo'ub runmmzo' ny
ssSAMUEusnownum
Ram-um, dlenndrie.
-si Dcily Canace, 6 Doﬂar: per annum.
__Country Gmtte, : Dollarc.
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bowe",
But Flora, crown'd with sweete, her way
CONGREss _
"HOUSE OF REZFEALVTA TIKES. ss,
unhurt maintain.—
' on 'siA nuchzo host-non.
--'Tansm-.Y,"December 21.
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the name eommon'samily and which mayssss
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one day prove int-al to poltttpul liberty—4
The first question which preeents itself in
the investigation-of this subject, involvesis
on the one hond, said Mr: G. the veracity
'and dignity of the- Amerim government,
and on the other the charactcrmnd sirep'uta
tion of a British ::nvoy and in some'ssdtgree
- of the British win:-try. " '
In my remarks on this subject, (said he)
l consider it regular to csiotnmence iiithss the
origin of the missioa from Great Britain
to the United States, out'of which has aris
ssen the present unpropititious posture of the
aﬀairs between the two countries. What,
sir, were the circumstances under which
that mission was dispatched here ? in the
month of May last, it was ltnotm to the
British minisuy that a commercial arrange
ment had hers: made by their envoy resi'dent
here, (Mr. Ersltine,) with the Arm rican
government, but under the allegation that
it was made contrary to instructions it was
Tno sooner known than it and" the minister
making it were disavowcd. Mr. Jack-en
was then dentsito lubstitute Mr. Ersltine the
'disavowetl agent, and at the time he, (Mr.
]aCkS'Oﬂ.) was sent t- this country, it was
Well known by the British ministry that the
govemmentof the Unitetl State-i stood so
lemnly pledgtd to the American people to
maintain in, and that they had inviolably
and eteadily adhered, to certain l'oht'l'! and
[ Parson-us in our diﬀerences With Eng
land—a surrender of or departure from
which would be a sacrifice ol'the honor and
L best inter ests of this nation. .
A
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l ch, Sir, when they Well knew that in the
aﬂ'air of the Chesapealte our-executivejwould
not, and the voice of almost the whole na
tion had pronounced that he ought not to
make the first advance to a reconciliation,
'"Msir. ]ackson was charged not only to re
quitf the first advance from us, to win
that in the doeument which should con
tain the atijustment of that aﬀair, the re
vocation of the president'n 'proclamation of
1807, iuterdicting the British armed ships
from our waters, should be recited an in
dispensible preliminary ; but 'to require
from us also the violation of the prin
ciples of our naturalizntion laws, by
insisting on the surrendcr of foreigncrs who
had become naturalised. As to the orders
in council, we know not what specisic pro
positions he was charged with in relation to
(them. As far as We are able to deduce any
thing from sacts before us, it must be un
derstood that the British government had
determined to accept of no conditions for
the repeal of the orders in council, except
such as had been previously declared on
the part of the American government to be
inadmissible. -Notwithsranding ctwhat his
heen said by the gentleman from N. 't'ork,
(Mr. Emott,) 1 think it' in easily to be
demonsttated that the British government
did not intend to make any arrangement
diﬀerent from that contemplated by the ce
lebrated instructions of the twenty-third Of
]anuary, transmitted to Mr; Erskine. [(
the British government so recently as May
last, disavowed an arrangement, and recall
ed} its minister, under an allegation that he
violated his instructions, was it to be sup
ss posed that they would in two or three
months so far change their policy as to an
thorise an arrangement on the same princi
ples they had just ,rejectcd? Certainly not,
sir. lt is evident that such an accommoda
tion could not have been designed, because
Mr. Canning says that such measures must
be adopted as should secure the Objects of
the orders in council. That they did not ss
by this mean the mere sscontinuaocs of the s
non-intercourse law as to France, is mzni- 1
seat; for Mr.-Canning says to Mr. Pinlt- l
ney that a repeal as to Great Britain would
be a repeal as to the whole world unless the
British—navy were to be permitted to en- ss
force the law interdicting intercourse with l
France by the seizure of such -\*essels as ]
t should he found violating it.
L ' . , si -' ,
' nsilu- ]] I! M. "to intention 0! me on
sisitiah government to recede from thelgroundc
taken, to wit : the requisition of a continu
ance us the non intercourse law as "to France,
a sun-ender of the colonial ttade, and allow
ing the British nzwy to enforce : law of the
U. S. would not the minister lent here to
rfect the arrangement have been instruct
ed to take a diﬀeren ground from that pre
viously insisted on ? ] t seems to me per
fectly clear that he would. From thin ob
vioua view of the au'qctect, ! hope ( thou not
be ehlrged with trespaning on that deco
ram eoearneotiy recommcnded - by gentle
men on the Othenide of the house, is ( say,
"that, Mr.]ackaon we: tent here both to 0!
fer terms and contend for principleo insuit
ing to thin nation—und'l demand of gentle
men whether this conduct nen-be consider
ed in any other-light than on a premeditat
ed inlult? 'Theywere npprieed of the ul
tiqatnnt-of thin got'erntnent as to' the or
den in council and the aﬀair of the Chen.
pevke. The tem oferedþad been declar
'vl __:._ 'l 24 -ssc__ -
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timating that our government had a know
ledge of these circumstances, chm'gel it
with being parties-73 criminis, Can any
_ thing be more palpable than this? He ex
Don Ferch'nand the 7th, by the grace of
God, King of Castile, Leon, Arragon, of
the two Siciiies, &c. and in his royal name,
the Snpreme Central Governing ]onta, of
the kingdom of Spain and the lndies—to
those of my council of war, vice-rays, and
captain gent-ral: of my armies and pray-inc
u, eapmin metals, lieutenant generalsctield
marshal-,brigadiers, and other officer! of
my armieo and royal navy, auistanu, in
.tendants, gave more and osicere of sort-, Illd
other persons of whatever (last, simation or
condition they may be, of all eitieu,village'o
andtowomos this my kingdom of Spnin
and the Indies, to all whom it me belong,
osthio my Royal Ediet, lrnmv t at with
-thi4date,18th0ct. ! have thought right
to forward to the senior of (ny-supreme
council of war, the following decree :
Spnin nssthe present period, at the hei ht
ofglor'y usirhich her vllor end mesninimpty
hue acquires! her, cannot any longer me,
withouteompromicing her honor. with in
difference, the hostile nen. of the Dinish o
[ vestment. ' Their wot of liberty,:n'd She
ed over and over ngain' by 'Qtlsimnpmm:
to {sit- such "as this govermnent conld as":
unction. . "
These, air, were the circumstances-un
der which the simission ct-mmenced. \Vh-.tt
were those which characteriztzd its progress
& termination ? ! think it" very easy to shew
that the conduct of tht'minibter himsell',af-'
ter he arrived. pgrtook Itfictly of the same
character as 'the conduct of the ministry
who sent him._ " ] think" ] have chewn that
the disposition manisested by the ministry
in sending him here.was insulting to this
country. Let us next enquire into the cha
racter disclosed and the conduct displaved
by that minister after his arrival. ' And
SPANISH DEC—LARATlON OF 'VVAR
AGAINST DENM KRK.
presses this idea in still stronger termswhen
he intimates that Mr. Smith had'a princi
pal ageticy in the miscondnct on this occa
sion. lt certainly was not in Mr. Smith's
power to substitute conditions for those
which he declined accepting, but it must
have been done by Mr. Ez-sktne. But not
withstanding this, he charges Nr. Smith
not only with eonniving at a conduct im
proper in itself, because it could only j
lead to a rejection of the arrangement ss
growing out of it, but insinustes that her
was the tincipsl sctor in the scene. ln ss
Mr. Smit 's letter in answer to Mr. ]ack- 3
son the snimsdversions are too clear in;
their objeetto be mistaken. Mr. ]ackson
is informed of the tlispleseure of the Amc- '
ricnn government st such insinuations; and 3
in the very first letter which was written by
the secnetwy ol'state, he disclaims pointedly
having had any knowledge whatever of the
deficiency of Mr. Eisltine's instructions at
the -im-.- of making the arrangement. And
what says Mr. below in reply ? He eats
again, that Mr. Erekine's instructions were
known to Mr. Smith. Sir, ! acknowledge
very candidly that on a superiicial p'erusal
of the correspomlence, the charge of lalse
hood, from the art and adroitness with
which it is wrapt tip, does not appear so
palpable as when itssis more closeiy examin
ed. Yet, sir, nocwithstanding all knowledge
of the instructions had been denied by Mr.
Smith, Mr. ]ackson reiterates the assertion
that they were known. Do gentlemen say
there is no insult in this? That there is
nothing wrong in the assettion of a know
ledge on the part of the seen-tary of state
which he had before formally and solemnly
disclaimed. si
[Mr. Ghalsan's speech to be continued-(
in that enquiry, without wnding through'
of ()ct. he says. that the arrztngetnent'with
Mr. Erskine was made under such circum
stances as could uniy lead to a disavowal.
[( the circumstances were such as could
onlv lead to a disavowal, they must hat-(:
been dishonornble, and Mr. ]acksnn, by in- ss
expressions used by Mr. jack-mo, and
to the manner in which those rXpreseiuns
were met by the secretary of state. By do
ing thus it will be very discernahle n0t only
that the time stated in the resolution are sus
tained by the currespondence, but that the
resolution does not go so far as fact: would
all the documents, which gentlemen can
as well understand by pen-using them in
their chambers as by heat-ing them read
here, ! will merely adscst to the oﬂ'cnsiVect
warrant. In Mr. jackwn'a letter of the llth _
On the Declaration qf' War assiiþain with '
Deum-se.
m
Translatcdsar the Freeman's journol.
FROM THE SZVlLL! GAZBTTE.
'TROYAL EDICT
herself of tosi obtain her viewssswu m dsict j'si
srdm Spnin a {Part of the Spanish amiss;-"i ss
ing it to-Hnmhurgh, and from-thence. sss
])enmark; where they aﬀorded the so: '
t'tgn ofthil latter kingdom, and even [si
French in the war in which she was ; _
] played, those servieee, which sll Eu. .
; has eeen', which (fight on be expected &.
: theirdiscipline end velor, yith as .
) glory as desitri'ment- to themselves, of .'
) sufficient proofs ere given bysithe loosos
' many men'in those frozen regions. At .
moment that the- part of the Spanish
which was in Denmntsik, henrdof the ..
resolution of their cotmtrymen, to ths
' oﬀ the "French yokc', and chase war, th .
took the 'noble resolution, which is v'
rare in histtiry, to abandon that canon;
and to join their country-men in their o
country, ﬂyirig to the ass-istance of t
brothers facing dnng'en, tb participate -_
the ghorysswhich they were ncquiring
memoreble example of the continuity --
agreement ,of- sentiments, which reign; '
mong the Speniards, hithough they may
sopented by great 'distances- The ma.
qui. of Humane who commanded this ..
dy, not doubting of the. valor, constancy
and patriotism of the soldiers, .med by
the zeal of the officers, and theie generi
consent, departed with the greater part of
his troops, set-uniting . them in the island
of Langeland, from whence they embm.
ed for Spsin by men: of the eﬂieseiomm.
sistance which the command-m of the Bssi.
tish navel forces stationed in those tents,
\ forded him.
l The delicate rocedure of the marquis
: ltt Romans. not? his preautiontoavoid any
si thing which might have the appearance of
? hosttlity against the thtsh government,
j and to maintain, on his tide, the good had
; mony which existed between the two count;
{ he was indiepensably compelled to attack
, nme Danish boats to take posseesion ol
? the sortress of Niberg, which was to pro
tcet the ﬂight of his army. The Englith
, ndmiral took upon himself to attack and
? deliver them up. _
; ls Denmarl: had remained neutrnl at this
, period, not Opposing their departure, nor
ss entlcat'oring to retain this body of troopt.
Spain, constant in her system of delicacy
nncl scrupulosity, would not even Yet take
harsh meaeurcs against Denmnrk, nor
would break the ties of lium,-end Ptl
friendahi which exieta-doince do inn-mo- -
rable period betsiveen the tvd notions ; but
ss late incident: confirm the active part which
ss either by will or .compulaio'n, his 'Danith
majesty has taken in the war of Spain .
gainst France._ ?
ss Denmark was opposed to the 'departure
of the Spanish troops from her trrritnry,
and is they did not obtain their wish, it
must be more attributed to tiiss-ir want of
means, or the endeuvm-s of the Spanish
trdcps to" execute their resolutious. than to
the will of that count who adhered to the
coalition system with France, and blindly
obeyed the orders which the emperor of
the French (lictaterl. A clear proof of this
is, in not receiving a charge des nssnir-t
from Spain, at, Copenhagcn, and the ni
swer of count chstoss. signifying that cTr
cumstances did not permit him to hold any
correspondencc whh him. This was ail
ding insuit to injustice. Mr. Edward
B.:urke, the Danish minister, was, while:
this happened, tranquil, and respect-:d a;
Mnclrid, yet he. departed from that place,
abanrioning his eznpiovment, and following
ss the French at the end of so 3'41808, which
' evidently proves their ndheaioxt to France,
* and rcnuocincioo of correspondence with
Spain.
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Dcnmarbyieldcd their neral and land
force to France ; their sortreucs nerre them
as a wall, and an act-lum : the Spnnish ves
sel: cannot freely nwignte their sets, and
much las enter-their pot-te. 'to trade with
them. nor even have them as an'asylnm :
gainst tempest-. and : portion'of Spaniardo
are. detained in their sorts as prisoners. and
in a word., Denmark it, without ! formal
declaration. at war wi th Spain. siW-hat more
can one power do than declare war to ano
ther, whom che judges her enemy ! Spuin
il eonvineed thnt Denmash. neither for in
tereet or sxizn dship. nor for ny motivel.
enter: cheerf-ziiy- into thin contention. Spa'm
is convinced that Deemark'bcing governed
by the force or inﬂuence of France cannot
throw oﬀ the yoke which-them: her] on
her—: yoke" no hard and drþitrnry an is she
me been : adown-red mien-; main-e, if
Denmarlt was sn-e'ehe sssmsiiild not act hos
tilely again:]: : nation of'uhieh she has no
cond , not, at pn the cant man mo
timpto euhivmsirgeod Madhssig.
But Sun.-59 man.-muche" Europe "4
all the. wailed,-Light. hsissectr conduce. .- le, upon"
that the ought to" hire 'n-siyonid'eretion
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