Norfolk gazette and publick ledger — Norfolk [Va.], 1810-02-23 00:00:00, page 3

ysntsmiay, in a amm# ikt «M<|iiimiilljf de
MMlfMnltli* affection 4lih which hi* memory is
JgbtriA&i. For once there was no distinction of par
^My..all wen alike emulous in tfaeir endeavours to
f*BR«the Father of bis country. It is not nor in
ffaetion te detail minutely the occurrences of the
dVf- The differrnt volunteer corps paraded, and
wetythnogh their evolutions and firings; the sbip
•Ttttj|-IP *ha harbour were decorated with flags; the
*"|P*y and mildness of iba day, gace additions!
pleasure, and the evening was closed .by a Ball (at the
Exchange Coffee Iluusr) which for numbers, beau
■A.nad fashion was never equalled in this place.
Hit wss not the exterior display, that attracted our
f^attdhtron and admiration, bat the indescribable sen
nations, which could net be affected, that were
painted in every countenance, while every tongue
gR. ™ soldier spoke of his constancy, his courage,
hi* hwnfnUjr; be bore, says the veteran, “ tri
aadadversily with the tranquility of wisdom,
and the simplicity of virtue.”
The chisel! remembered his civil administration)
it was, says ha “ mild and firm at home, prudent
** noble abroad ; while he respected the rights
M and asagea of other nations, he procured respect
•' for otirs.” The politician dwelt on his ardent
of liberty, at the same time that he deprecated
lh mad and visionary theories of demagogues.
With this admiration and love for his character,
may the maxims and principles of government
which ha practiced in his administration, and re.
commended in his valedirtary address, equally com
I the attention of ritizena of every party!
* .Our readers have" in this day’s paper the official
document? of Collector Brown’s defalcation.
We have received a New-Yoik paper of Tuesday,
hot. it contains oo article worthy of notire, except
the marine inleiligeWce which we have copied.
It was reported the British Packet was going in
to the Monk «n Tuesday; *he will probably bring
jlhe Becember and January mails.
Kakkisd—Last Evening by the Rtv. R. t.
Symet, Lieut. Edmund P. Kennedy, of the navy,
to Miss Martha Brodie, of this place,
Din>—This day, Mrs. Janet Patterson, in
the tOth year of her age.
Mr. Sumpter, the minister to the Prince llegem
®f Portugal, arrived at New-York the 9th instant.
He Will shortly embark on his musior. to the Bra
Jfla.
The Democrats of Massachusetts have nomina
ted the Horn, Ethridge Gerry, Esq. for Govemour,
dnd the Hats. William Gray, Esq. for Lit ulaoant Go
wsmour, fof the ensuing election.
Mf tract from tie ANSWER of tie Senate of the
State of ATci York to tie Speech 0/ his Etctllen.
cy the Govemour.
“ The unjust, multiplied, and continued aggressi
ons of the belligerent powers, their violent infracti
on of sell Ibose principles and maxims which ought
to regulate the conduct of nations, and their deter,
minedg^rsevarance in a system of spoliation and in
polt, have produced an extraordinary state in our
Jbreign relations, which cannot fail of impressing
iha citizens of the United States with a just sense
of the crisis, and with a firm determination of main
taining at every Hazard the honour and rights of
their country^ And while we contrast the violence,
the tyranny and the oppression of foreign govern
fcenti, with the moderation, the wisdom, and the
jnstice of our own, and compare the lelative prospe
rity ot »ur country with the calamities which the
dther nation* »f tba civilized world arc now suffer
Ibg, we are penetrated with the most exalted sense
•f the Divine. Goodness, and are fortified in all our
convictions of the cxrplhuce a( a government
Which recognizes the people as the source, and
their happiness as the object, of all legitimate au
thority.
^ * w** V* l'ave heert hoped, that Great Britain,
*$»«« her interest identified with her justice wonkj
executed with good faith the arrangement
i in her behalf, by her minister plenipotentiary,
and that all oqr collisions and controversies with
would have been settled in a manner honnura
, Me and advantageous to both countries. An expec
tation to reasonable in itself, and so imperiously de
■Mnded Irv every principle of justice, bus been dis
jippoinUd j and that govsrnnient has persisted in
« course of aggression, and has sent to us a minister
‘ptfnipplejMiaiy, a man who was heretofore made
/fhe instrument of uptrage to a neutral nation, whose
Conduct In this country bus been characterized by
fmalawt, and who has dared to impeach the vera
AWto attack the honour of our government,
jtly .fMpf t due to the American name and people,
rrnderra it proper in the national executive to re
fnsea^y further cummuuication with the offending
minister. And we ardently hope that the wisdom
*n4 patriotisaRdf our national government will da
- ajixe md exaralc tba most efficacious measures to
yindicate our .rights, to redress our wrongs, and to
tape) with energy any future outrage.”
DOCUMENTS
4C4BtapMyi*g the Appropriation Bill for the
■ - ■ idipr I*l*. '•
January SO, 1S10.
W4
the rhirmannf ;he rornmif*
«M ofetii andmea
, to elucidate that pert of the
the bank of
alee money to
%in>CSf
Urtana the •«
venced byj
to the cdtiectnr *i
nodthtl
to tjweett lementeT the
account* j
■g, fete mratary #<*n
• *
M,
>-;,Vv
y&.at.' : :.4> ..
tbe (iota to make aou^fntgumat at thru
for tlie psjment of tholtaod.srk of duties so the
gooda imported last foil, particsforly (be ships Bai
Ufk and Eleanor, that paid upwards of on? hundred
thousand dollars; sad several other cargoes that
were specially imported for the Spanish market,
and ara still on hand, waiting only that event to
send them to Vera Cruz. As the duties will have
been paid, debenture# must, issue payable in fifteen
days after the vessel sails, and 1 shall not have suf
ficient pubiick monies on band to meet them.
I am Respectfully, &r.
WM. BROWN. Collector.
Hod. Albert Gallitin, fiery of treasury.
Treasury Department, Marsh 9, >809.
Si»—It is probable, alter ranine of the embar
go, that drawbacks on the exportation of merchan
dize from New Orleans to a very considerable a
mount, will become payable by the collector, and
that they will much exceed the amount of monies
coming into hit hands.—Undei these rirrutnstan
re*« 1 •’■ve *0 request, that on the application of
the collector, you will advance to him, tor the pay
ment of drawbacks, a aum not exceeding obe hun
dred thousand dollars, which aum, or such part of
U as he may hod necessary to take, the collector is
directed to refund to the bank out of the first mo
nies which shall subsequently come into his hands.*
I11 the mean lime the drafts of the treasurer on the
institution shall be so regulated that na real advance
of monies beyond the deposits belonging to the go
vernment shall be made.
The advances thus to be made to the collector are
not to be charged in tbe boaka of the bank to the ac
count of the treasurer qf the United States, hut I
will thank you to note at thtrfootnf the treasurer’s
account, which is made to this office, the amount
advanced to the collector, and to cuutinue this note
at the loot of each return, shewing the tarn iti ad
vance to the collector at the end of each month, un
til he shall have repaid te the hank the entire, sum
advanced in censequence of this letter.
I am, Sir, &c.
(Signed) ALBERT GALLATIN.
Joseph Saul, Esq. Cashier
Branch Bank, N. Orleans.
dCOPY)
Treasury Department, March 9, I8O9.
Sia,—'Ta enable you to pay the debentures for
drawback on merchandize which may be exported
from New Orleans after the 15th of this month, I
have requested the cashier of the office of discount
and deposit at Sew-Orleans, to advance to you a
sum not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars, of
whtch you are to take only such sum as may be
necessary in addition to the monies already in, and
which may come into your bands for duties at the
custom house. Whatever sums you Jmay draw
from the bank in consequence of this credit are to
be replaced by you not of the first monies which
shall subsequently he received. At the foot of your
weekly returns yoo will pleasr to note the amount
of the sums which may be drawn from the bank,
and will continue such net. until the amount shall
have heen repaid. I am, &c.
(Signed) ALBERT GALLATIN.
William Brown, Esq.
Collector, New-Orleans.
I homes T. Tucker, esq. treasurer of the U. States,
im account with office of discount and deposit, Ncu
1809. ’ DR.
Oct. 31.—To amount to new ac*
rount' $321,153 97
1809* CR. *
Oct. 1.—By balance from old ac*
!?““*• 521,158 87
N. U. The sum of ane hundred thousand dollars
was advanced to William Brown, esq. collector oi
this district, on the fourth iostant, per instructions
contained in Mr. Gallatin’s letter of the 9th ol
March, I8O9.
Errours excepted.
Office of Discount end Deposit,
New Orleans, Oct. 31st, I8O9.
JOSEPH SAUL Cashier.
W. o. Inclosed it W. Brown n receipt.
(COPV.)
Trraitiiy Department, Dee. 4, 180J>.
Sir I have this day received eight weekly ie
turn* from yon, from the 1st July to 3lst August
liiit, with sundry other returns, some or which bore
the post mark'of November 13th. At the standing
instructions of this department respecting weekly
returns, and the particular instructions to you up
on that subject, contained in my letter of the 26th
of June last, have not been complied with, I take
the liberty to repeat, that it is indispensable that
the weekly returns should be weekly made, and put
in the post office immediately after the end of the
week to which the return relates.
I have also this day received from the cashier of
the office of discount and deposit, your receipt for
one hundred thousand dollars, taken up from him
under the authority contained in my fetter of the
9th of Marrh last. It was not my intention* and
the tenour of that letter implies it, that the whole
of this stun should be drawn at ouce j hut that af
ter the monies in your hands were exhausted, you
should draw on the bank from time to time, to meet
the debentures as they should be presented to you
foi payment. If therefore you have not paid away
lor debentures, the whole of that sum of one hun
dred thousand dollars, together with the sum remain
ing from your collections, and which appear to have
amounted, on the 31st of August, to twenty-three
thousand dollars, you will be pleased immediately
on the receipt of this letter, to refund to the office
of ditouunl and deposit such sums as may remain
in your hands ; and will continus as fast as any
^monies come into your hands, to apply them from
week to week to the redaction af the balance of the
advance from the bank, until it is wholly repaid.
I have received no statement of the debentures
issued, nor any intimation from you of their e
mouat. From the time when the money was taken
ap by you, 1 presume they were issued in the month
ol September. No statement of debentures issued
tn the subsequent month of October, came to >»tH
by the last mail. This is «ii irrecolarity which
oegbt not to have taken place.
trefcpt
jjMrant of the manner in whirl
J§» depst tment ought to be a
W" paniesdaMMlentionthat
viUw
t -r - n>» rrtftirvf
of ihe treasurer * account with year institution for
the 31st of O tnt+r last, in which whs eiit-toecd* Ste.
Hwwn's receipt i»r wM-humiren ih"««.hd dollars. k
was not my intention that he should <haw the-Whnte
of the sum at nncaj unless indeed he sheriff be cal
1«J upon to pay debentures at onre, not only to that
amount, but also to the additional it mount of the
whole such remaining in his hands from his collet
lions daring the last eight or nine months. I hare
tbia day written to Mr. Brown, directing him (o
refund immediately to the bank, any port hut of the
sum advanced, which may not have been paid away
,by him for debentures > and to codtimie, from week
to week, to apply the amount of hit collections to
the reduction.oi the balance of the advance, until it
ta wholly paid.
. I am, very respectfully, Ac.
(Signed) ALBERT GALLATIN.
Joseph Saul, Etq. Cashier, Office of
Discount and Deposit, Nem-Or leans.
(COPY)
Office ot Discount and Deposit, Neic
Oriauu, November 2#180t). I
Sir—A circumitarcp has occurred of a most ex
tnmrdinary nature, t>:« elopement of YYilliam
Brown, collector of this'part. It is presumable be
hat carri-d with him about 90,000 dollars in dudb*
loons, which he had obtained by means of the cre
dit pi era hire by you on this ofice. On the 4lh day
of Ortoher, the amount was, at his request, placed
tojtis credit oar our books, as well as on bis own
bauk book, and drawn lor agreeably to the account
herewith. He left this city on Tuesday about 12
0 clock, and stated to his deputy that he Was going
to leave town for a few days, which he was in the
habit uf doing, his wife’s friends living about ?6
miles up the roast. Not a lisp of suspicion existed
until Thursday, nor would it m all probability lor
many days, only from the following r.rt otnst mce:
IJe had a note due in this bank tor toOO dollars ; at
near 3 o’clock, I sent over to the cuplom house,
and Ips ifrpuiy relused to pay it, with the mess.ige
that the collector had left ho word about it, and he
dd not know where be was gone. I then saw the naval
officer ; be told we he did not. Itnow, tior could ac
count lor Mr. Brown’s absence, except he was gone
up la his wife’s friend*. I expressed my astonish
ment at the deputy’s refusing to pay his note, und
asked him if he knew the cause > he then told me"
confidentially , that although he could not for a mo
ment suspect the honesty or motives of Mr. Brown,
there Was something strange in his leaving at the
moment be did, when his services end presence was
particularly required at the custom house. The
circumstance of the advance of the § 100,000 then
occurred to me. 1 asked him if he knew of the ed
vam e ? he said he knew ot tl;e order from you, but
did not know that the collector had made use of it.
1 asked him if the business of the custom house re
quired tiie advance ? he answered no. I told him
Mr. Brown had drawn a considerable portion of it,
and went immediately to Unk to see the state of
his account on our books, when I was surprised to
find he had nearly drawn the whole balance, within
the last few days, which had remained to his credit
on the 31st day of October, by checks payable to the
Louisiana hank; for which it since appears he .got
doubloons, slating they were to be shipped on ac
count ol government in an unarmed vessel, there
fore enjoined secrecy on the cashier. My suspict
ous were then excited, and I called on the president
of our bank, stated the circumstance to him j af
ter some conversation, we agreed, delicate as the af
fair would lie if our suspicious should prove without
foundation, no lime ought to be lost in making them
kuown to th* governour. He immediately summon
ed nil the officers of the custom house before him ;
their evidence, and its beiug proven thathe had se
cretly become the purchaser of afelucca; or English
pilot boat, which had sailed on the day he, the cob
lector, weat away, left no doubt but that he bud
gone in her. The gnvernnur then seat for commo
dore Porter, who immediately dispatched a row
boat with an officer and six afroed men, after the
felucca. Arceuais just arrived from the Bailee
state, that she, the felucca, was lying thereon
Thursday morning, watting for a wind, and that the
wind would be fait that afternoon, it having chang
ed about mid-day. I am, therefore, feai ful he will
make his escape. The consternation excited in this
city by tbitsbamefulaffair, is beyond all calculation,
for he was looked upon as a model of honesty and
correctness in his office; and although some might
doubt bit prudence in hie private affairs, I believe
not a soul in the cooimuduy doubted his honesty.,
1 am, sir, dec.
(Signed) JOSEPH SAUL, Cashier.
Hon. A. Gailetin, Secretary of the Treasury.
[I’ttoM thx Boston Cp.imjret.
The wisdom of the Embargo ; and the blessing of
Non-Intercourse—{Exemplified by a Farmer.]
Mr. Secretary Gallatin, in bis report nf Decem
ber, 1809, states the reveuue arising from the du
ties on merchandise and tonnage (after deducting
the expense of collecting) for the three lust yours,
us follows, vis.
In the year 1307 $ 16,059.457
In the year 1803 10.332,163
In the year 1800 (eetimutad) 6,500,000
Deficiencies.
In 1808 $5,7*7,19*
In 1*09 9.559,457
15,236,75»
That making a deficiency, nr deed low, to the
treasury oithe United States front the duties on
mptchandtss sod tonnage, occasioned by the embar
go, and non-intercourse schemes of fifteen millions,
two hundrsd eighty-six thousand, seven hundred
and fifty-one dollars. And yet there are idents and
slaves who condemn thc federalicfs, particularly
those in II assschusetmpwhu, by their spirited, sit*
drgetic, and truly comHuttonal proceeding*, mdne
ed tbs government t* abandon noa of those taiqtti
tons and destructive measures; and gave the etner
the enlightened 1
Curmtniol i*teltigt**e if (A
Tmrvrr, i* Jty iiof t f rtmi
Three Anieiieat)
Dameh ‘*«**rrfh»e»»L'4lie» -pSa
uy the An>rir«fe ec.wiui at com
All Aw-m.n, •* well „.«l
arriving at i unitingen ymi nfhrr
etriftlv examined whetbet ro»ii
:r»«ndty ports, and if their p*pe
fd to entry.
M.illimore for A man-idem. Tm ship Occti
New York, wag lost the I hi of Jabutry,
the river—about two thirds, rtP the**£§££,
sliip Indian Hunter, ef Ballimors lost shcns
both vessel nod cargo ; ship Oriental of £jni|
W>it at Heligoland, vrssei and. ' ago ^ aa Ea
schooner tieloi.ging either to Cape A up or Mi
head, lost et the same place, both vessel nodes
brig F-lizs, of «nd for New York, sailed lOda*
fore; ship Eliza, Skiddy, oiflKaiifwriMR
Charleston seine day.
■' ^ "•*-■'• * %tN ‘ . |;j •
From tie Herald of tU, Morning.
Ntw YokK, February
iMetr From Tonuinmcn. 1
Yesterday arrived at this port, the ship Am
Turner, fr- tn Tuaningerv which place be left «
l«h of 1 vUttiry, Capt. T. informs, that three
before !\a suled, the Danish govewMtq^tfb*
Decree, imthibitinsj the eaporUUuu ofcnMkfc
H ilstein—Sugar and Coffee had been prahifete
a funner decree. , ,vi, ' , .
\V> further le.rn, thal the emperour m
loupe, that 800 of the troops belonging to the
expedition landed in the Bay of Idaho ok cite
January, drove the French bedorw them. ‘i,*
possession of that part of the (stand, On (hi
heb. an attack was to be Made on Point FV
Sch'rs Pocahuntas, Williams,
Brothers, Nicliols, 0 dky* ; Sullv,
Lucy, Smith, 8 days—Sloops Prw
hours 5 George. M >rtin, 6 daySf
To-Morrow, (Saturday) at H
Oh Left howr Wharf*.
The CARGO' of the Schooner Umij
Havanas, consisting of
208 boxes 1st quality Brown
Terms—Approved endorsed Notes
days for all sums over 300 dolt-ra—<«*a
Fashionable HATS.
SobwreUCID’