The American Republican gazette — Concord, N.H., 1802-08-24 00:00:00, page 2

It appealed that fotae trifling er#
rors, nofih the least affe&ing the
inference of the paucity of infti
tuteclor depending causes, had
ariren from inexa& statements de
rived from clerks of- courts, dnid
from annalifing and adding the
numbers contained in the returns,
and tranfcriblng the re'fuit. That
these 'errors teere trifling clearly
appeared from the effe& of their
correction on the firft statement,
the one of which 6nly varied
from the other, by the addition of
& instituted ? and 90 depending
suits, including in the corrected,
some returns not in the original
statement.
The recapitulation of all the
suits inflicted and depending in
the circuits for the above stated
eleven years was as follows:
fteaptaletta .ftht fyiti it tbtCi'rcw Courts
ts ths U, Statu, a.d tbr!)^na Courts
-/# Mafas; KsiUuth,, astT^Rfft.
•4nftituted. Depend.
Newham ihhe, ' 114 7
Rh,dc Blind 275 io
M^ffichofette j'zg 41
Maine 9 3
Cranzaicut 354 38'
Vei merit , 278/. ,64
Newyoik and Alban, ^6° . .=
Ntwjerfey ' 104 )4
E^fteh Dist. Pennfylv. 1961; 174
We fterrt do. none none
'Delaware :- /n^ I'6
Maryland ' 270 59
Kentucky i 'B7O ^246
E stern Dist. of Virginia, ,16b 531
W<ftrm do. (not organifed) none none
:Nortb Carolina 629' 134
South Carolina : 495 1 #6l
Georgia %7 ^^f
Didrias of Erst and)
+Weft Te^fl^, 3 .°^ 74 I
Qift. of Ohio, (cot oigarriGr) none none]
T $358:1629
On die 14? hof Dec. the house
after a long debate relative to f.
Pickering's and other accounts,
went into committee of he whole
on the message of the President.,
Diferiminating Duties.
^Gen. S. Smith observed, that a.
mong other obje&s to which the
President had a^raDed the atten
tion of the house, was our com
mercial situation. We were in
formed that the U. Stares wereat
peace with all nations; which had
also taken place among the pow
ers of Europe. It became Con
gress to direct its attention to the
consequences that might proceed
from such a Rate of things ; and,
particularly to the injuries that
might attach to our carrying trade
;—ft was known that under the
Britiffi treaty, Great Britain, go.
Ing perhaps beyond its meaning,
had imposed heavy countervail
ing duties on our goods, and that
certain a&s of France had the
fame effeds, whereby many of
our most valuable exports would
cease to be carried in our own
bottoms. Early under the pre.
sent government it had been dee.
med wife to lay diferiminating du
ties, which had tended greatly to
assist our carrying trade and ex
tend the capitals of our merchants
—The unfair regulations of for
aign nations seemed now to re
quire a different mode of count
tera&ion, from that found in the
diferiminating duties, which uns
der the British treaty, were made
the basis of these injurious regu
lations. However wife the impo
sition may have then been, found
policy might now require its re
moval. He therefore moved: ;|
Refohed, That so much of the
several a&simpofing duties on the
tonnage of ships and vessels, and
on goods, wares and merchandize
imported into the United States,
asimpofes a diferiminating duty
of tonnage between foreign vessels
and vessels of the U. States, and.
between goods imported into the
United States in foreign vessels
and vessels of the United S aies,
ought to be repealed; such re.
peal to take effed whenever the
President shall be informed that
diferiminating duties of f reign
nations, so far as they operate to
the disadvantage of the commerce
of the United States, shall have
been aboliffied.
On the 15th, Gen. Smith's mo
tion refpe&ing Diferiminating du
ties recurred.
In its difeuffion a great divert,
ty of opinion was difcJvered. Mr
Griswold oppofedi tonthe ground
that it was intended to defeat the
obje& contemplated by it. The
aas imposing diferiminating du
ties having long existed with great
I good effed to, the mercantile in,
te re ft, he was of the opinion that
their reinoval would be extensive
ly injurious, and peculiarly so to
the eastern division ofthe Union;
, the more so, as from the confe.
quences likely to ensue from the
peace, our ships would be thrown
out ofiheir ordinary employment
He acknowledged that it was ve
ry desirable to secure the carriage
ofour bulky exports in out own
ships; but he could not perceive
that this would be the effe& of
the preterit measure. For his
part he declared his firm belief
that our carrying trade would be
[effentially injured by allowing a
•free trade, whereby the English
would enter our ports upon the
fame terms with our own Ihips.„
in fopport of the resolution it was slat
ed by Wffr,> S. Smith and Gibs, that in
their opinion the lyfiem of tiferirainating
duties in the early period oft the govern:
meat was wife, as our own thtypiag was
thep unequal to the carrying & our pro.
duce, and as it had operatea with almost
magical eff^a. in producing an extension
of American shipping beyond the most
sanguine expedition. Such had been
the effeas of this fyfiem until the adop.
tion of the British treaty. Under the
conftruaion given by England to that in
ftrumenty ffie had, on the b^fis of our du<
ties, which the contended we had no ul
terior right to countervail, whereby a
monopoly of the carrying trade would
fall into her hands. The only circum
stance which had heretofore, since the
z^ of the treaty, suspended this effed,
arose from the higher war infuraace and
freight paidby Eoglilh, than was paid by
American vessels. This circumQance
having ceased on the return of peace, it
followed that :hafe nations who carried
the cheapest would fate the preference,
The operation of the English counter
veiling duties was exemplified in the
gredt article of tobacco ; whereon it was
stated, that 18a. a hogffirad taore would
be paid on an American ship carrying it
to England, than 0a a Britifo vessel. On
this article the tifual freight was 355. The
difference, therefore, in favor ot British
over American Whipping, amounted to
more than one half. The fame eff-ft at
tached to our other articles of export. It
was further stated that like preferences
of French over American vessels exited
under the edias of France, produdive of
similar rffeds. Under these circumftao
ces, it was contended that it became the
United States to repel, by any means
which would be honorable ^nd efraual,
the unjust restraints of foreign nations ;
and that no expedient appeared so well
calculated to accomplilh this object, as
the offer of a free trade to all the womld.
Our merchants had capital, and our sea
men enterprise, while our own foil afford
ed us all the materials for building (hips.
Under such propitious circumstances, no
doubt copld be entertained of our ability
to enter, with effea, the field of open
competition. It became, then, a govern,
meat desirous of ptoteaiag the com
merce of its citizens, to seize the favora
ble moment of returning peace, as that
most likely to insure that harmony with
foreign powers, which Ihould terminate
in the mutual adoption of measures of
reciprocal benefit.
Notwitbftanding, however, these for
cible, and, it is believed, irresistible, ar
-Iguments, the meafare was opposed by
the New England delegation, who Igno
rantly pet lifted in the declaration that it
Would deftfoy their carrying trade ; and,
at their instance, it was laid over to the
next feffioo. Thus that very plan, con
ceived in a follcitude for the proteaion,
arid a wife foresight of the means of pro
teafog, the carrying trade of the U, S.
wa suspended, perhaps entirely fruftrat
ed by those very men whose cooftituenta
were the most interested in its adoption.
Impretfed with a sense of the import
luce of the measure the President appears
with laudable promptitude, to have in
sured, so far as related to the required
Co-operation ot Great Britain, the means
of its adoption. That government, dis.
ceding the policy of cultivating friendly
co nmercial relations with this, & awake
io the vaH fuperiotity of a system of per
manent reciprocity between the two oa#
tions. to the temporary and evanescent
benefit derivable from a treaty which will
expire in two years, and not perhaps re
gardirfs of ihe probable meafores of
Fence in ^xendi g her commercial ties
with the United Stoea^haLpafled an ad
antborifing the king to suspend under
certain circumstances the operation of
her coubtervaiung duties.
^What wi'l be her futprife, 10
l^arn that a measure, enforced, it
may be presumed, by bur execy
five, and recommended by our
true interests, has been baffled by
the local jealousies and narrow
views of a few men,, who fliould
have been the firft to suggest and
urge it? What will be the award
of their constituents, when they
shall, from the effeds of time, dif
coyer the fallacy of that confi
dence which they had reposed ?
It is to be regretted that this is
not the only instance of party an
tipathy getting the better of judg
ment; and that every measure,
recommended by the present ad
ministration, has been oppofed'
wuh a misapplied and unenlight
ened ztak '
Frequent attempts were made
by Gen. Smith, at subsequent pe.
riods of the session, to call on his
resolution; but they were all baf
fled by the invariable opposition
of the federal fide of the house.
— _
From the Network Citizen
—
On Thursday afternoon the
fubferiber took in beef, &c. for
the United States frigate, com
manded by Capt. Bairtbridge,
then lying too off the Hook.
Having got along fide ofthe frig
ate, she then being under way,
the captain of the frigate hailed
my boat, and alked me what I had
there ? I answered, that I had
beef on board for the frigate.
Then, fays <he captain, you dam
ned rascal, if you don't mind, you
may take your beef for your
pains. After which he ordered
the beef on board the frigate.
The fubferiber having taken some
water melons down of his own to
fell, the captain order* two of
the belt of them. I then told
these men that the water-melons
were my own; and! would not let
them go without the money. The
captain then said you damn'd raf.
cals hand me up a couple of them
melons in a minute, and then or
dered me from along fide of him.
I then asked a gentleman in the
gangway to let the captain know
that I had not been paid for the.
water- melons.' The captain then
standing on the quarter-deck,
damned me again, and told me to
cast off; or he would have my faft
Cut. Itheacaft off, without get.
ting pay for my melons. After I
was from the ship, and under fail,
the captain asked which was the
man he got the melons of? I said
g was the man, and not paid for
them. He then called me a dam
ned rascal again, and ordered two
of his marines to fire at me, and;
said again, you damned rascal, doa
you think I want your melonsr
without paying for them ? repeat
ed his orders for two fivivels to be
bro'tup, and two guns were a&.
ually leveled at me, and expected
to De fired at, no one standing on
deck butmyfelf, the rest, 7in num- 1
ber, having all ran below.
The fubferiber submits it to the
public to decide, whether this is
the conduct of a gentleman or an
officer. DUNCAN M'VEAL.
Wa/hington City, Aug. 4. Mr. Pi
chon has, we are informed, re#
ceived orders from France to col.
le& the votes of the French citi
zens reading in the United States
on the question ofthe re eledion
of the First Consul for life ; and
registers are opened to that pur
pole in the French consular offi
ces in the United States.
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/'ZIBERTTand the CONSTITUTION.
Ctnitgtlj, August 24, 1802
News o fcarcer than money:
The World sjo much at Peace /
Federal'Fuel!
How admirably confident are
the federalifts ! — Formerly, under
Mr Adarl, the kighefl; officers were
dijmiffed (or " turned out? as the
lories call it) without ceremony ;
and if they ventured even to ajk for
the reason of their difwfori, they
were.fare to be frgmatized by the
tories a& ? impertinent miscreants !—^
" ^£l irtT jeferfm,every pet
,jm|mbfylc^), fleers,
pursers, &c. de
mand pertv^CTily the why and the
wherefore of tfceir not being retain^
ed in the public fervict, when they
•; are as i,efs as the fifh wheel to a
coach, and when the laws of the fed
eral government and the rules of
justice and propriety demand their
^charge. On ever, petty difmif.
fal, the federal papers are fluffed
with the most vile, "deteriorating"
feurriliiy against the present admin.
iJlration, But the people, we trust,
will be cautious how they receive
such calumnies.
Winthrop Sargent wrote a long,
acrimonious pamphlet againji the
Prefdent, became he did not re ap
point him governor of the Miflijifr
pi territory, when most of the people
he had governed had long been pe
titioning Comgrefs to remove him :
But the federalifts all echoed the
would-be governor, and declared he
was right in abusing the PreJident•
yet the legifature and the people of
that territory have thanked Mr.
Jefferson for appointing Mr.
Ciairbourne their governor.
Captain Michael called the Pre
sident u infamous," and got phren-
Jical, became he was " ordered into
civil life !" Congress reduced the
arm, to a requijite number ; by the
new arrangement Captain Michael
happened to be deranged: and not.
withfanding he, had complained of
his service being a facrifice, yet he
could not bear the idea of quitting
, afervice where he was not wanted
and going inlo social life ! He must
heap his Jhare of abuse on the Pre- j
Jident and the Republican Congre^
for reducing the arm, ! and his
brother figured awa, in d threaten-J
ing letter to the Secretary of War!g
This served to eke out the federal
papers for a while.f
Capt, Hyde, who was also ft
ranged, fwore he hated the Prefa m
dent, arid called on his friend to q
; help hate him! But he is too low ]
1 to merit further notice. |