Norfolk gazette and publick ledger — Norfolk [Va.], 1810-06-13 00:00:00, page 2

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Jt owning Master Poths made Lit firstup
f£ jlfeicharacter ofNurval.
•TheTaioeof thisyoung geotUmsu badrprfce&<tiiai1
ftnd consequently high exportations were raised.—
We feelteve'few tfdroy' were Disappointed, his perfer
n»»r« oT. tlhreharaeter,Wat -to ^udicioes, as to
command tliesirH t attention and to gnjn the warm
approbation cJtthe audience. We shall not attempt
• minute examination of the theatrical talents of
MaerPti P.ctk*; MratrW ihty have been tl*e sub
j*rt ofexami nation in other places where, he has
performed, and their renfttrke upon them copied into
*^»etr■ There ie no part of this young gentle
nwu’i performance that mure commanded our at
tention and applause, thnnthe relation which be
maintained with the -audience? after his first en
trance and modestly saluting tlus company, he ap
peared ever after to forget them, and was wholly
engaged with his owir and the other; characters of
the piece—no turning to the audience, and breaking
off abruptly fir the most interesting psrrt of an in
teresting speech to thank the audience for applause
—No ogling wirjp she Hones as lie came on, or
went off the Stage.—Many good performers are
spoiled Uy on in lu1«ence in these habits. Bluster
fttywtfti to make his appearance to-morrow even
Hig ill the character of Rulla.
The .low Apa ms Went op the B iy on Monday.
“Captain H*il of the schooner Phiughboy, passed her
,o(fXew JPoiht Cofoforf on Monday morning.
iM
w* first saw the late dispatrhr* from
Trthee, wtd fitHSidtlwrt (Ire- langrMgr of ti e French
government towards us, had at last h» come as in
temperate, a# contemptuous, nad as ins-vltini:, as
her rendert Las uniformly been; wh-n we found
the due d# Ckdore, by the command of his master,
ftfricially saving to tmr nvimst-r, “ that the /.imeri
<M*<*J* viffouljiut yalitfraf vita*, without honour,
Jgifyuhmil t*e>xv" «•*' thought that tVhorai of
.f»W»c indignation would he such, that the papers in
•4b* pay of France would he compelled to remain
’’lilent for a few days. In this we have been disap
pointed. The Aurora, end one or two other French
l, jfcztlies, continue as firm as ever in the vindication
.VfNto *vM«;.eu«»ducjt uf their employer, still insist
ing that wo have received neither injury nor insult
except from Gj-otu-Britain. The Aurora is now
* m«W ewnerctftdly belabouring the National ir.telii
gedeer, for admitting that therein same doubt, as
to the just gnd friendly conduct and disposition of
'ttrtf'Eiirpcrour & King towards «s!—There are men
in the yfnrld, who understand the uftr.f being Mo
p«g%, itpd,well served by those whom they em
“floy j but itt this no one excels Napoleon, as every
lays observation will confirm. *
, U. S. Gaz.
perpetual Embargo.—We bava already sug.
' 'be probability that the articles, which have
appeared'in the National Intelligencer, were;
Jed to prepare the people Air ar,i>tiier embargo.
Syjxperted incident has enabled us to confirm
*auggestlun. ^ S now feel ourselves airlhorised
-* after nurrh consultation, a majority of the
Cabinet Council has determined to resort oi.ee more
to that ruinous and wretched measure. Whether
.*■* *%*$}■** af ro»gress will be railed to car
try this scheme .into eflect, we kimw not. Hut of
this We sro confident—from the iron grasp of an
embargo, designed to continue until war shall cease
ift toicape, nothing will preserve our country hut
Voice trf a deluded ami injured people.
N. 1\ Com. Ado.
ie baa rysigped h;s cpmmiesion of Colonel
vm (ruth. It was sent, directly after lb.
. „fr4gment of Chaiypagny’s Utter. Ties i
—ier trofb. Buonaparte will not allow a briga
*** dfev jfVneral in the French army to hold a mititiirj
commission in the army of an enemy. And this ii
another tr mb. Wfiat connection the three havi
*&£¥***?:M <w4.ct® d!vi,n«* End. American.
Cot. Doase.-* file last Aurora contain!
• declaration of Ot* Editor’s intention to delVm
! t» whom Duana appears to be fas
grappled-r-iink or swim. The Cnfonel uismuata
ihat he jyho longer in commission—but does no!
,ip, |g*wll«h*i*h« resigned by order, or otherwise.—
KM Tbngijpge is, “ while hearing a military coTin
mission, hy was cautions in his paper Y>n the suh
4 j*ri Wilkinson’s persecution,” Arc.—but now hi
. threatens to njWhis fire ngainr.t all such as aid ir:
fcarfassing the General--Congress and all. We
- * think tba National InUlligrh?er will be compillec
batwsew tw« alternatives—energy nr sub
iialilifo. He must defend the demormtick govern
»' dWS<& Ait*,ns* the most mischievous of %U democrats
C - -os.trukle to the thuod< r of the exasperated and un
r/v iwretfcabls •* Aurom." Fed.Guz
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lb the commencement of th^ revolution in 1775,
it»hi*r wishes to add a list of all the New».
MS printed so the Uni ted States, as well as in
French and Spanish dominions—on this rontU
the West Indies, on the first day of Ja
•** 2w *
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ibtmxu * t *Mg*m
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YELLOW FEVER.
Extract of a tetter from Thomns Jtffeison, late pre
sident of the United States, to li’jjlium C. C. Clai
hvrne, governour of the Orleans Territory, dated
Washington, July ft/t, 1804.
“ 1 he position of New Orleans rcrtainly destines
il lo be die greatest city the world has ever seen.—
I here is no spot on the globe to which the produce
of so great an extent of fertile country most neces
sarily come : it is three times greater then that ou
the eastern side of the Alleghany, which is to be di
• vided among all the sea-port (owns of the Atlantic
states, i here is also no spot where yellow fever is
so much to be apprehended. In the middle and
*-»ui*wrne trie sun tartly
shines, they can safely build cities in solid blocks
'•iliiout generating disease, but under the cloud
le*3 skies of America, where there is so constant an
accumulation of heat, men cannot be piled upon one
another with impunity. Accordingly we find this
disease confined to the solid built parts of our towns,
and tbe putts on the water side, where thereis much
matter for putrefaction, rarely extending into the
thin built parts of the t<\wn and never into the coun
try. In theselatter places it cannot be communi
cated; in order to catch it you must go into the lo
cal atmosphere where it prevails, is not this then
• strong indication that we ought not to contend
with the laws of nsture, but should deride at once
that all our cities shall be thin built f You will per
haps remember that in 17934 yourself, the present
governour Ilamson, and some other young gentle
men, dining with mein Philadelphia, the then late
yellow fever being the subject of conversation, and
its inrnmmumcability in the country, I observed that
in building cities in the U. States we should take the
chequer board for our plan, leaving the white
squares open and unbuilt for ever, and planted with
trees. Harrison treasured this idea in his mind,
and having to lay off a city two or thtee years ago
on the hanks of the Ohio, he laid it off on this plan.
As it is probable N-w Orleans must be veiy soon
enlarged, I enclose the same plan for consideration.
I have great confidence that howsoever the yrllow
fever may prevail in the old part of the town, it
would not be communicable in that part which
should he built on this plan : because this would
be all like the thin built parts of our towns, where
experience has taught us that a person may carry it
after e itching in its local region, hut can never
communicate it out of that. Having very sincerely
at heart that the prosperity of New Orleans should
be unchecked, and great faith, founded as I think
in experi-nce, of the effect of this mode of build
ing against * disease which is such a scourge
to our close built cities, I could not deny my.
sell the communication of the plan, leaving it
to you to bring it into real existence, if those
more interested should think as favorably of it as
f do. For beauty, pleasure, and convenience, it
will certainly be eminent.”
From the National InttUigcnctr.
T be Aurora has opened its batteries upon an edi
torial article, which a few days since appeared in
thi3 paper on our relations with France; but for
what substantial reasons it would puzzle even a
conjuror to divine. Onr readers will rerollcrt that
in that article a view was presented of the faint
ptospef t of «n early accommodation with France,
interred principally from the stile of tbe offi
cial note of the Due de Cadore, its immediate pub
lication by the French government, and the exten
sive and unjust infractions of our maritime rights.
The Aurora has seen fit to perceive in this article
the proof of a subservient spirit in the National In
telligencer to the opinions of the members of con
Pr<,ss, on which, with an illiberality totally unwor
thy of a mind that claims for itself tire independent
exercise of its sentiments, it is declared to depend.
I n the article, winch has called forth this denuncia
tion, the reader will look in vain for any thing like
subserviency to any mm or set of mni. He will,
011 the contrary, find a fair statement of facts, ac
companied by remarks, which it will not he denied,
are truly American. He will perceive the same
independent tone held towards France as towards
England ;-th«t tone, which, it is the pride of the
editor, has always been manifested towards every
foreign government that bas outraged our rights ; a
tone, which will continue to be maintained so long
as American blood flows in Ins veins. Anient as
ms wisnes are lor the happiness of the whole hu
man »ace, hs has Iona believed it the duty ofev.ry
American rilizt n to rally round his own govern
ment, and, reusing to place the least dependence on
the justice of foreign powers, to be prepared to de.
fend by force the rights and interests ofliit country.
It is this very motive, that has inculcated upon
him the duty of toleranre ; of respecting the senti
ments of virtuous and intelligent men, however dtf
ferent they may be from his own, and, above all, of
refraining from denouncing friends for a mere'dif
fiKiice of opinion; or, if it will please the Auro
ra, if “ consulting that will, which counsels delibe
rating minds to he as useful as they can, if they
raonot be as useful as they wish." And if the Au
rora would occasionally take the counsel, which it
upraids others for pursuing, it would neither detract
from its charadet or usefulness.
■ Averse as we are, even to disgust, to controver
sies with fellow editors, we have thought it proper
thus briefly to repel the unjust and intolerant re
proaches cast upon this print, which.has been from
its commencement to this moment, condurted with
perfert independence, and which would disdain to
bold its existence at the will of aoy man or set of
rrten. The occasion may, however, be better im
proved to inculcate that temper, which the state of
upr affairs So hmdly calls f«*., -
ilf every emergency, it ought to be remembered,
Ih^t oar nation is composed <rf a number of inde
pendent states, ip which interests, in some impor
tant respects various, prevail. ■ We should never
i®1* •jjPn!' Wllw memorable fact, that the establish*
nelt ot our indcpeddeircc, antHhwadonuofi of our
-onstiluitott '
were ine offspring ol a spirit of conri*
i
ialion, that
magnanimously dictated mutual seen- J
. Vi %
.. „ other m&0)p
mat?*
therefore, to be
daai.
The existence of
Uie republic k and ol the republican parly depend
ipottj^ Union cannot be maintained without it;
*?d °™on' •!** *j'*tein would crumble 16
piecefi Depending altogether upon publick opinion,
deprived of this basis it would havagteo means of de
teace.ngainst its enemies.
Precious, however, as this union is, there are sa
crifices, which it would be criminal to mtflte for
preserving it. It would be in tbehighest degree cri
minal to countenance the sacrifice of any great
principle, of any essential right, or attribute of so
vereignty. Nor should the distinctive feature of a
free government, that the will of a majority shall
govern, ever be suffered to he infringed.
When, then, that crisis came, which produced the
embargo, the local opposition to it, which menaced
a resort to physical force, should have been effectu
ally pot down. This should have been the first
step, even if it had been immediately followed by a
repeal of the embargo. But the embargo ought
not to have been repealed until a longer time had
been ullowed for trying its effects, or without a re
sort to war with the violators of nur rights. We
have ulways maintained this, and we maintain it
But a large majority of congress thought other
wise, repealed the embargo, and passed the non-in
tereourse law. They acted, in our opinion, incor
rectly, though honestly. We did not applaud, he*
caue we did not approve their conduct. The step
was, however, taken, and we felt it a duty to give it
a fair experiment, and not, hy a useless repro
bation, to hold forth the idea t# the foreign world,
that, owing to our internal divisions, it would not
be enforced.
As we have intimated, we never were sanguine
with regard to the good effects of this system.—,
what those effects would have been, the memorable
arrangement with Mr. Erskine, which so soon
thereafter ensued, end the consequent relaxations of
congress, prevented us from ascertaining. 'The state
of things, with which w« are all well acquainted,
followed, and produced the complicated embarass
ments of the last session of congress.
1 hat a great majority of the members of that bo
dy were actuated by pa Irio tick motives we enter
tain no doubt. They certainly did not pursu: that
system, which, in our opinion, was Lest adapted to
the interests of the countrv. Bat, believing that,
with their various impressions, the^ did the best
they rould, »e have seen no propriety in denounc
ing them. Their measures arc certainly a fit sub
ject of discussion ; but that discussion should be
temperate, and above all, the motives of men,,
whose whole lives have manifested private worth
and puldick virtue, should not b« indiscriminately
impeached.
Rejoinder from jue A mo* a.
The National Intelligencer retorts upon our ani
madversions of last wrek, with its accuilumed mode
ration ; but is puzzled to discover “ substantial rea
sons lor our animadversions ; we never supposed
the editor to be a ronjurer ; and to prevent any ex
traordinary straining of the faculty of thought, we
shall just state what we consider to he a substanti
al reason.
The great use of the press is freedom of discussi
on in ths investigation of all public mcasurrs—this
freedom operates by unfolding truth and detecting
erronr, by giving to the pufclick an exposition of
public measures in the intention as well as in the
consequences ; to support them where they are be
neficial and necessary, to resist and point out their
defects or their pernicious consequences. This we
consider as the main use, and the purpose for which
constitutional guards were erected, for tbe preserva
tion of the freedom of public discussion.
Upon perusing tbe aftirle upon which weanimad
vei tetj fast week, we peceived that tbe National In
telligencer had come in too lute with its discoveries
of the futility of the measures of the tenth con
gress; that it was not until the evils of the misera
ble policy had become notorious by actual tnisfor
tuue, that the National Intelligencer ventured to
reprobate measures, which if they had but been met
by public sentiment as it was felt throughout socie
ty, and been so expressed in the public prints, those
members of congress who had shrunk from their
duty, iutimidated by the clamours of . faction, and
the menaces of the seditious legislature of Massa
chusetts, we s«y had the presses been as faithful to
the public, us the hireling presses of the British a
genry were zealous in opposition to law and govern
ment, the tenth congress, instead of being deterred
from its duty, and deseiting the honour of the nati
on, and the support of the laws, would have sustain
ed both.
I he Niitiiinal Iutelligtncer we considered from
iti position, and its general respectability, as pre
emiueutly culpable on that occasion, had the presses
ot Boston in 177-land 1775 pursued the same tem
porising plan of publication ; had the presses of
the whole continent abandoned the just to pursue
the expedient, we might have remained to this hour
the abject colonists of the fifty yean tyrant.
It was the omission in proper season, of animad
versions suitable to the magnitude of the occasion,
which the Aurora deemed and still deems deserving
of censure, and that censure is rendered still more
deserved by the admissions now made in the article
animadverting upon ours.. If tbs Intelligencer
thought those measures futile and worseat the time,
why was not the Intelligent r a faithfuleentinel and
declare it, why remain untii this period when ca
lamity has rendered the relation and the lamentati
on alike nugatory ? The Iutelligencer has however
justified our remarks, and more than justified, by
stating “ that a large majority of congress repealed
the embargo and passed the non-intercourse; that
the Intelligencer did not applaud nor approve,” and
truly that they acted incorrectly though honestly.
1 hecase no doubt is so 5 we admit the explana
tion to he fair j but what we complain of and think
meriting censure, is that the Intelligencer, when the
government was threatened with resistance by phy
sical force, did not utter its reprobation of the ex
ecrabie proceedings, and call for that maintenance
of the laws, which was necessary to the dnratilH)
of the union; and which by not being opposed and '
repressers it should be, has laid the foundation
for consequences that sre uow not easily calculated,
i , her« <■“** dispute upon a sentiment of to
hrattm among The stater,'that itahoold be main- 1
tained by large qsrrifiees is admitted; but what has J
that to dd with the question ? tf» actf of nfaetkn in '
" • " _: t* j--r J/ w'r-,
iftfaJrtaMfc-iobe CMiMj*r*$** t&’iu f» of a state
i/ fefcrorce <*re J0 bu thus construed, there would
be a moral impractrbilityin drawing lb* line be
yond which*tolerance should end^iid legal aatbd
rily assume it* magistracy. oaiofl depend
altogether opon public opinion,’* and that the press
es shrink from the exprft*i«h of that true opinion ; .
while the enemies of the public happiuess add the
apostles of discord, ate propagating delusion and
infusing the conoption of forafgn agency into the
public mind, how is public opinion to operate or be
known, if the press, secured in its liberty of dis
cussion by the constitution, forbears from mistaken
notions of moderation, from timid prudence, or ii
temporizing expediency, to promulge tlie dnngT < f
measures about to be carried into execution, and ,
bolds out at the band of a complaint toleration to*
men who menace the magistracy and tile govern- '
ment v.ith resistance by the swoirl. '
The motives as well as »h« actions of public men,
are fair objects of investigation ; nor is it, a reaspti
that a whole life spent in virtue should screen
vote ora proceeding dangeious or unwise in itself
from open or liberal examination. Theembarrass-*
...v—, v. luugitsa arose precisely trom me same,
temporising and mistaken notions. Liberality id
public proceedings is proper and becoming, but the.'
occasion and the object must be suitable, for ex
ample, it would be the extravagance of absurdity
to expect any laudable proceeding from those mem
bers of congress who argued in countenance of thd
British emissary Jackson ; yet we have sevn mem
bers who voted against them on this question, hold,
mg forth this false liberality to men capable of sack
abandonment of national honour and private deco
rum.
1 he Naliur.ul InleUig,ncer boasts of its indepen.,
dent tone equally towaids 1'ranee and England •
perhaps m no particular has that paper h>»s cause
to boast than on this very particular: the want .>1
discrimination, the bind futility which has govern
ed congress in that vey point, is one uf the moat
prominent proofs of t^ prevalence 'of ignorance,
incapacity, or timidity, or what the Nation tl intel
ligencer will perhaps dignify by calling “ a font of
tndeptndence," hut which in fact is no more than the
unconscious echo of British wishes, and the result
ol her secret influence acting upon the unguarded
ear of society. The errour throughout has herii a
want of common sense in the measures of congress
—and the same want in those who have advocated
or acquiesced in them.
From the f Nassau J Royal Gazette.
Came passenger ,n the John Bull, from Crooked
Island, Charles Richards, a u.tive of New London,
State of Connecticut, and late mate of the schooner
biolb, of Elisabeth Tow n, stateof New Jersey, B- t«
jamiu Williams, master, who on the 15th of April,
accidentally tell overboard, from the said schooner
having been five days out from Cuba, bound to Ikl
tinriore; abreast of Long K-y. between 5 and (5 P.
M. being about 5 miles from land, there being at
that time a brisk hreeje and the vessel going at the
rate of 6 miles an hour p she immediately round<d
to, but not having any boat (it being previously
stove) all efforts to pick me up were vain ; tln re re
mained no alternative but to swim to land ; a fa
vourable wind and current with the aid. of Provi
dence enabled me to accomplish it, after having hem
0 hours in the water, and nearly exhausted. As
soon as I recovered sufficient strength to raise my
self, I gave thanks to Almighty God, for my pre
servation, and then lay down untif morning, w hen
with great difficulty I walked to a plantation be
longing to the hon. James Moss, where I was ihost
hospitably entertained ; I remained on Long Key
and on1 board the John Buff, untiF she sailed ior
Nassau. As captain Williams must soon havelo*t
sight ot me, will probably on his return report mu
as drowned, I therefore earnestly request the editor
of the Royal Gazette to publish the fategoiug
statement, that all concerned may be assured of ms
safety as soon as possible. | also take ibis method
01 tendering my thanks tocapt. Fulford, comma*.
oer ot the John Hull, lor his humane treatment and
polite attention to, me, and to the iuhabiauts of
Long Key and Crooked Island generally.
C. RICH Aft D3.
BatTiMORr, June 0.
LATEST FROM LISBON.
The Augustus, Bacchus,strived hereon Wednes
day last, left Lisboa April 17. Cupt. B. reports
the combined armies on the frontiers of Portugal
100,000 strong, and the British troops at 30^K)3
— this is no duubt an exaggeration—Previous to
the sailing of the Aa^u^Uis, Cadii dat^s were re
reived at Lisbon to April »2. The French were
laid to have abandoned Port St. Mary'a. The
Spaniards were daily strengthening themselves in
-udiz and the islrfad of Leon. A canal bad been
rut about six miles from Cadiz, which was defended
yy the British fleet, by gun boats ; and on the city
nde by heavy artillery. At Lisbon no apprahenst
ins were entertained of the surrender of Cadiz.
The ship Augustus, arrived here yesterday,
Drought out three fuil bred MERINO SHEEP—
.wo reins and one ewe. She was to have 28 si
,hem ; but they were intercepted by the Spaniards
>n the borders of Poitugal. Ev. Putt
The new government of Caraccat has relieved
.he aboriginal inhabitants from every species of tax
»r imposition, save only such as are required of
he Spaniards and their descendants ; and in e
ttry other respect placed them on an equality as to
ight and privileges. Ibid,
DON LEWIS DE ONIS,
Master Plenipotentiary of his Catholic majesty
Ferdinand VII. passed the following Circular «f»
ticially to the Consuls and Vice Consuls in thy
different porta of the United States.
Under date of the 27th April last, I am informed
)] the intendant of liavanna, that our ling Ferdi
land the 7th, and in his name the regency of the
tingdom, bat been pleased under the existing cir
ruinstanres, to grant to neutrals and allies, ednnt
lancein the porta of Havanne, Cab*, Trinidad and
Mutanzas, with such Mticles as are atipalated in
the commercial arrangement of free trade of 1778,
conditioned .that the proceed) of importation shall be
exported m the fruits or produce ot the island, cans*
ng by this means end ti e same turns an extension
the trade to the inhabitants of that Island and
dl the permitted port* tbereef. But to prevent any
lontrafcjmd trade or importation of^Frfqch produce
pmanofnctuies,it will ba required that such ship