Norfolk gazette and publick ledger — Norfolk [Va.], 1810-06-15 00:00:00, page 2

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nwr« demorratiek
rereitedby the Eli*,
Thu i* the only pccount that
*f tW arrival of tbit ship, and it
ihtefaigence, indcrd W* rxpect there
hiog bear—Mon papers have been
lit Boston to the 4th of May, announcing
t piper* and, litters from Franc* had bach reeei\
• London to'theCdth April.
liW» presoma that Mr. Armstrong is to retorn, as
o*» (orjnerly .reported—He Whig, stating that
there is so change since the last advices—The
will bring Washington papers,
Up may expect to find details, if there is
maj smog new.
Tit Embari'i.—Onr would n.>t suppose that at
this lime *»f day, offer tbe trials which have tarn
made, (bare would be a man in Amerira, who would
advocate the embargo. But strange as it may ap
pear, we find every democratic paper in the union
now praising that most ruinous nl all measures.—
War, gtmtparrd to an Embargo, ns it was enforced,
of attempted to be enforced, would be a happy state
of society. Under the embargo we suffered all the
evrfa of* war, without any of its advantages.—War
jndcnl is distressing—it is an evil which ought, if
possible tu be avoided. But it has many advanta
ges over m Terrapin system. It mns>a and invigo
rates the manly faculties ; it calls forth and exeiri
•es the courage and the enterprise ot the nation,
gnd unfolds genius and abilities which in a state of
ftatioo&l turpitude and inactivity would never ap
-pear. Vi’e are not advocates for war—we wish for
peaee—but we had much rather, like the H n Qi.jv
0t»« of the 10^h congress, fight the whole world
than submit to a an end embargo. Then why talk
of aneml argo at this time. ’ Our affairs with G.
Britain arc. if no belter, certainly no worse than
they were wh|p the embargo was laid, or whrn it
Way. taken oitP" We want no embargo on her ac
count. Aa to France, we rau keep out of hrr way.
(^iionerchants will not attempt a trade with tbe
continent, nmt§tjbey are satisfied the letter of Cham
pagny is genuine. And our government stu
died the interests of the nation instead of the
proapotion of party, millions of property, whirh
»6w will be lost, might have been saved.—
Had the letter of the Doc dt Cadorebeen published
officially in this country, when it ought to have
been, pur merchants and insurance offices would
not have had to lament the loss of all tbe property
which has gone to the continent since tbe riiiddle of
April last. N.Y. Evtn. Post.
TnfTrmlt Zcffir.—An extract or summary of
» Utter was manufactured in Washington last win
ter, purporting to be the substance of a private let
ter from Mr.-Pinckney to Secretary Smith. This
Nummary was forwarded by mail, franked by mem
bers of congress, into every part of the United
States, for tbe purpose of influencing the elections
thin pending. Jt had tbe desired effect.- — Several
which were then federal, »ni which, if
had been told, would have been so still,
a^HBtiorratrr. The letter having ai-swcre.! the
Pt^pe f<#which it was intended, cu^ht to be sof
lered |o sleep-,—The promulgators of it, shonld be
tbe last to keep it alive.for they may depend,
though it places them highm the scale of intrigue
tnd deception, it does them no credit as honest
tpea. But it seems another use is In be made of tl.is
piece of deception. From this fitter, which Mr.
Pint km y never wrote, nr.d Mr. Smith never rereiv
•di-vthe people got the idea that the British govern
*Tld reprobated the conduet of Mr. Jackson,
I'plmntsrd to.recal him, end send out a rni
of rani a»d talvnti to succeed btm. The
intelligencer in commenting on Welles
*erto Pinckney holds out this idea. He
British hare changed their ground; this
.i if they have we have no official notice
of it, blr, FiOrkney has never told us that there is
afftisiigeby bai never told us that Jackson was
to be recalled, that the marquis Wellesley reproba
led his conduct, and (bat a minister of rank and
tufifots would be sent in his room. There is no
authority f»r*ucb assertions, but the National In
telligencer; and ihe editor of that paper know*,
that the pretended private letter never existed—he
kaptra that a call of. the bouse of representatives
was made for the filter, and he knows it was not
produced, if ihe letter had existed- if its contents
wens proper to be published from D n to Brorshe
b|, they were proper to be laid before the figisla
lulifio t sivl we have no hesitation in
aeying that it such a fitter had existed, it would
h«*» been laid briers congress, and h«vu hern pub.
litbed, ’ JM.
,™ bitterest eittmy, of American Vbtr/j, and in
dependence; the most devoted atyct hypoo Had mi
•urn of George III. cOvU nol'hoxt coveted a ceue
UM rtf (tT T I rrt’• / i i__ i
mbrehnmiliahn,
dialing nor rr.ere claming for American in
,. <*«» wfo W«al if *«., *,<•„
l$¥t and from witch nothing short of a mir-cle
extricate the nation with honour or credit "
rota of.
! end *b« hron«ht
nation into this most
all situations ? Was it a fcdeml or a de
administration? Was the tenth and sfe
jpjtitt, of which the Colotjel romphuns
J or deninriatir f |V«*.4j
B»»e members who .f*rii fired the noli
j and honour to the fears of their Insine
sits liens} flare not the Mmliitt always
that these me» were ooit to memwr
»f the nation? f tare we not continually
he electors gainst choosin* men, win
ft not “ Juty Mod honour” bat
?*'$»:«?• o«#i®«^»aefse< in power end
<*• colon*; h.iee i Thdse arc
b*. ha* supported,
tine, bleu bed
•ni iht the
They, poor
.-obhyrt the,ti8o»
>a^rd.Ti)r^|
■ - ^u»fa
ng oar water*," Wba* more could they
without losing their pltm I If they
incapable—if they ware not trustworthy—
those who seat them there, and those who support*
ed them are most to blone. Let the colonel put
hie hand to bn mouth, and hie mouth in the dust!
—He ought to be the last men to find fault with •"
congress “ timid, dishonest, add shamelessly sub*
Servient to tbr influence” uf a demoralizing system,
which has prostrated ell Europeat the feet of a lea*
der of French Banditti ; and which, if not speedi
ly resisted, will place America in a situation not to
be envied by Holland, Spain at Italy.
N. r. £*. Post.
Fire.—About half past 11 o'clock last evening a
fire broke out in a two stoiy wooden building uu the
corner of Depeysler and Front streets, owned by
Thomas Harvey and occupied by Trnet, Anderson,
and Co. as a Grocery. Before it wot got under it
destroyed the building in which it originated, wilhall
its contents, and an adjoining three story brick boose,
own-d by Mr. Jacobs, and occupied'by Samuel
Frost, hairdresser. Several of the buildings in that
neighbourhood were on fire at different times during
the conflagration, but J>y the active exertions of the
tire compauics were extinguished without receiving
any material damage. One' man we ate sorry to
lram was badly hurt by the»f.i]hng of some burn
ing timber. It is not asceitamed how the fire ori
ginated. # Ibid.
From the Demacratick Press.
VILLAINY QF THE aurora.
The Aurora and Cadore’s Ia tier.
On the iCtli we received, and'on the 17th of A
pril we published the letter of the Due de Cadore to
gemral Armstrong, dated Paris, February 14. The
matter, the manner, its publication before any offi
cial information of its existence had reached this
country in the English papers, all combined to in
duce the belief that it was a forgery, and we pub
lished that belief as nur opinion, accompanied with
some remarks upon the insufferable insolence of the
letter, if it should be ascertained lobe genuine.
On the subjert of this letter the Aurora has held
language neither consistent with itself nor the in
terests of the United States. We shall mark a few
of the passages it has promulgated on Cadore’s
latter.
On the 16th of April the Aurora affirmed the
letter to be an “ important and eloquent state pa
per.”
On the 18th April the Aurora aaid “ By. the
not* troin the Due de Cadore, the French minister
ot Inreign affairs to general Armstrong, published
in the English newspapers France appears to be
i|uit* us favourably disposed to the commerre of
this country ai under the circumstances of the world
end our own wavering policy we have reason to ex
pi ct.“
On the COth, the Aurora eays, “ We are told
certain Tories, that the language of the French
minister in hit note to Mr. Armstrong is insolent"
plainly intending to be understood that none but
tories, the worst enemies of the country, were of o
pinion that Cadnre’s letter was insolent.
In the seine Aurora, Ur wit, that of the 20th of
April, after pulling in substance Cadore’s letter in
other language, he says, “ Where, wt demand, is the
insolence to be seen in any part of this language?
ll is the language of trutu and GENEROSITY
—U is Justice.”
Finding that the speaking of Cadore’s letter in
such terms of eulogy, did not meet the approbati
on, hut did meet the disapprobation of every honest
friend ol the United States ; on the following morn
ing, that is on the 21st of April, the Aurora. con
descended to acknowledge, that there wefc ^ iome
men sincerely friends of America," who thonglit ibe
terms piopnsed by the French government to our
minister insulting. This was sacrificing something
of its partialities and leanings to public opinion and
preparing the means of, at a future day, further pro*
pttiuting public resentment; accord!ugly—
On the 21st May the Aurora informed its rea
ders that “ in the Paris papers we find the letter of
the Due of Cadore (Cbampagny) to general Arm
strong, but in terms and effect, materially differing
from the translation given in the English prints.—
We shall publish it at a convenient day, poiutixg
out the scandalous forgery of the English transits
null.
Duane appears U have forgotten or t» have hop
ed that evi-ry body el.i* had forgotten, that Che letter
upon which he had commented, the letter which he
had affirmed to speak the language of truth, gene
rosity and juitirr was in trath and in fact Cadnre’s
letter as “ pirblished in the English newspapers”
and that at the time he pronounced it to be the lan
guage Of TRUTH, JUSTICE AND GENEROSITY, he
had never seen “ the Paris papers” containing Ca
dore’s letters, nor had he any conception of “ the
srandalotis forgery of the English translation,” r.n
the contrary he believed it to be an “ eloquent and
iinpoifrnt state paper.”
Let us howevei examine how he extricates him
self out of all his difficulties and contradictions and
fulfils Kn promise of “ pointing out” the forgery.—
Here poor Duane gets into a worse predicament
than ever for the very day hut one alter he had pro
nounced the English translation of Cadore’s letter
to be a scandalous forgery—the National Inttlli
fencer says, “ Some doubts have been expressed in
.'inme of our prints of the genuineness of the note
of the Due dc Cudore tn ge». Armstrong. We have
received a Paris paper, which dissipates all doubt
i«'» this head. it contains the note which, on exa
mination, we find te have been fAlTHfULlY, iho’
rattier clumsily thanplated.”
If the editor of the National Intelligencer had re
collected how presumptiously be had pronounced
that tn be a faithful tiaoslatioo which the editor of
the Aurora had affirmed to be a scandalous forgeiy,
he would, without, any purling or divination have
ascertained the substantial reason” why Duane
opened his “batteries’ upon him. To retvro to
Duane : after a defay of many days be did publish
the letter of C.'.dore as translated far the Avrora
from the Parts papers, tut upon « comparison be
tween it an<J that which he said wain acondalous
forgery, w# hav* not been at le to ^Wouer either
in terms or effect soy material fi^rronc*, nor has
he fulfilled V.s promise of “ potnlihg ovt” the far
BSgaHt'
H
from ih^Kationvl JaUtti
! themselves doe#
toward* the rora*
of the United State* asVe deserve ? Does it
tr ue the language of U*th, jtufict and gene
roaitj) f If their hearts aotttr i«tbe affirmative
l*t them g* and subscribe far the Aurora, it ii the
advonte of such opinions : let them not however
*of*e deceive themselves as to suppose that the
spirit«{ an independent freeman lives in th^gr bo
Some. Ob no ! they ere fit to be bond slaves of
usurpers, the fawning sycophants of any man who
can bestow rank and wealth and they would pros*
Irate themselves in the dirt to obtain lb» favour of
him who bathing his limbs in the waters of the
Mediterranean and the Baltic would wish to wash
hit bands in Use Wcstcru Lakes.
Washington, June 11.
[communicated.]
Don Lewis deOnis hue issued at Philadelphia a
“ Circular* notification, directed to the Consuls
tod Vice Consuls o! Spain resident in the different
poita of the United States. The character of “ Mi
tiitfcr Plenipotentiary" which Don Oois therein as
sumes, is one which is not recognised in the person
iA that gentleman by our government: but, at the
same time, it :s an appellation naked and ineffici
ent, whirls the laws of the United Staltsdo not pro
hibit any individual from taking upon himself, if an
individual should place himself in such a ludicrous
posture before the public.
In refusing to receive donOnis in the capacity of
a diplomatic agent of the Spanish monarchy, the
American government only Wberedio that impar
tiality, for which it has been so much distinguished,
since ildid not reject the gentleman in question to
make room for an envoy Irom Joseph Buonaparte,
i'he United Slates couM only look at the subject as
it related to the sovereign power uf the Spanish
nation in point of/act, and not iu point of right —
to thing! as they existed, aud not to things as they
ought to exist.
Events have fully justified the conduct of the pre
sident with respert to don Onis. The supreme
Junta, in whose name he actually came hither, has
been dissolved under (be most unpromising circum
stances ; and the only formal authority maintained
in tbe name of the Bourbons on the Iberian Penin
sula, is exercised by a local committee at Cadiz—
Add to which, tbe present appearance of political
affairs jn the Spanish American provinces does not
seem ia the least degree auspicious to the cause of
Ferdinand VIt. ' These facts apart, however, the
United States could not have inUi fared iu the con
test between the Bourbons and the Buonapartes
without a manifest relinquishment of their neutral
character.
There did nut exist the least necessity for this
ect of Don Onis. The Spanish consuls, or vice
consuls, proceeding in virtue of their respective ex
equalors, were fully competent to disseminate the
information which the notification contains. It
will stike every intelligent man, also, that commer
cial agents are the most useful and proper organs
for such communications. Nat. Jnt.
Baltimore, June IS.
THE JOHN ADAMS
Has arrived at last—having come to anchor at
the Tort, ytsfrday morniiH!, 43 days from Havre
—Captain Evans went ashore at Annapolis, and
proceeded to Washington with dispatches from ge
neral Armstrong. We believe those who looked 10
foreign lotteries for prizes, are disappointed ; there
being no change for the belter in our affairs,—ei
ther in England or France. How COULD WE EX
PECT IT? Through federal stratagem and energv,
aided by the contemptible imbecility of pretended
democrats in congress, our country is disgraced,—
and its citizens subjected to heavy losses. To
morrow or next day, perhaps, we may learn the
particular nature of the dispatches brought by this
vissel.
We have been favoured by a friend with a file of
Rouen papers to tbe 19th of April, but they com
prehend nothing of importance. All France appears
to be » continued scene of festivity—the imperial
marriage is relebraled by “ all manner of persons,”
and by all manner of modes. All is compliment and
parade. All is frivolity, servility, homage and flat
tery ; and all seem to be happy ;
*• they praise, are prais’d, they give to get esteem,
** Till seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.”
Whig.
Philadelphia, June ll.
Arrived yesterdny, ship Francis, Pickle, in 47
clays from Rochelle, with 80 passengers, among
whom is the Russian minister Count Pablen. The
United Statesjfehip John Adams was at Cheryl,onrg,
and report says she was to proceed to llavre to
take on board Gen. Armstrong.
On Saturday last arrived at Lazaretto, srh’r Fa
vourite, Capt. Evans, 1/ days from Laguira. A
friend on board the schomer writes us, “enclosed
is Cararcas papers to the 11 th of May, every thing
remained perfectly quiet.—The sch'r Sally, Beef,
of and for Baltimore, was to sail from there iu 6
days.”
On examination of the Cararcas papers, we find
we have already given most of their contents, ex
cept a long address from the ruling power at Carac
as, to the Regency of Spain at Cadiz, in which,
after recapitulating the Mate of Spain, their own
rights as freemen, aDd inhabitants ef a branch of a
country overrun by a tyradt and usurper, that they
consider the Regency as a self-created body, and
penned up in a corner of the Empire, unable to
render them any aid or assistance, that from those
reasons they have taken upon themselves the go
vernment of their own couutry, and that whenever
the kingdom of Spam is returned to its former
sovereign and government, that they will bc*Bmong
the first to acknowledge their pristine allegiance,
and to give si gasproof* of their loyalty.
We are in hopfs tn obtain a translation of this
document for our next. [True Amer.]
Ntw-Yo**, June 6.
Comedian Ke vet.—By the MontrealGazette of the
21 »t ult. we perceive that all apprehensions of poli
tical agitation in that quarter have cot subsided.
At the police offiee^oa the Utb, an alien was oid<r
ed to quit the proviureimvwdiat djr. And on the
18tboo«n|jr was published, ‘Mo pot a stop to
nid^ljr assemblies people jggyj
ignite, end oners,
under the asm ePBarivari4g$>«
♦
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J»ne
SPANISH
iNDt-.
By the erireJ «f tf.*bng Thom*., C«pt. thgrtfiw,
Ironi Gomans, wis have been politely favored with
the following important state p*pt, Issued by th
supreme govern meat of Cera ere., which we hsltjj
to lay belore our readers. Pub: AM
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE!"
It ha. pleased Almighty G.kI to oral* to nrkK
country alike, the uilural right of its own sore*
reigmy.
Three provinces, planted by Spain, fostered *twf
protected by her power, have, and ul right oughtjtV
have, submitted to her guidance and direction, du
ring the period of their infancy, when', friim Ihiberf*
lityand weakness, they were incapable uf their
government and protection. '* ■
But Spain, deprived of her king by the unparalef
led peitidy of the emperor of the French, her Earn*
pean state vanquished by liis treachery end by bis
arms, and the ancient lawful and acknowledged go
vernment otthe country, destroyed by the viofciic
outrages of bis sanguinary prfliry, there exists nei
ther reason, right, nor justice, for continuing ot/y
dependence op a power,,that has no rXistfcn4'C’ut
in memory; policy, an^selfpresetvation.ther'efofe,
demand that we should provide for our common' '
safety, and the protection of fhese provinces, Xj - *•
taking in o our own band the natural sovereignty
of our country. . ' ’
The period has at length arrived, when these
nited Provinces, posses both the strength and tii**
power, to protect thems°lves. With a population
of nine millions of inhabitants; with an extent olf
fertile le/ritnry superior to any empire on the gh»s|,
aod abounding with all the riches that bounteous
nature ever bestowed on the human rare, it *„u;4
be contrary to sound policr. in the uresent
of the world to submit, AND WK ARE DETER
MINED NO LONGER TO SUBMIT, TO THE
DOMINATION OF ANY EUROPEAN OR *
FOREIGN POWER WHATEVER ,
For whilst a lawful government existed in Spain,
and her legitimate King sat upon her throne, we '
have ever been loyal to his person, and faithful to
his government, and our treasures have been the on.
ly support of the European monarchy and its allirs,
whilst \ve have been distressed hy a war in which
we had no interest whatever, and our country drain,
ed of those riches which nature has bestowed upon
the inhat hauls of America, for their own happi
ness, support and defence.
Under these considerations, and to prevent the
inevitable and ruinous consequences of falling under
the yoke of the emperor of the French, the tyrant
of Europe and the oppressor of Spain.—YVE, tli«
Spanish Provinces in America, declare ourselves a
FREE. SOVEREIGN, and INDEPENDENT,
PEOPLE, not acknowledging the DOMINATI
ON of any power on earth, refusing submission,
aud denying and repelling the authority ufwhatever
nation may atlenip’d uninion over us. This »»
unanimously engage and pled* i ourselves, to main
tain and support, with our LIVES. OUR FOR
TUNES, and O-’C SACRED HONORS, celling
upon every inhabitant in the provinces, to aid aurt
support, in carrying intocffect this, our laudable and
just resolution, and establishing, for ourselffes and
our posterity, a free, equitable, and independent
government, that shall secure oor happiness, and
give us a place of honor and tespect, among the in
dependent nations of the earth.
And we do earnestly entreat aTl foreign tuitions to
acknowledge and guarantee our independence and to
favour us with sufb alliance and assistance as may
eoable us to defeat the designs of tfoeAoeunes of our
country.
By thus disavowing our dependence o#Sp*in, we
solemnly appeal to Htaveu for till rec titude ui oor
intentions, and wedo protest before tbe s.-ce-i ma
jesty of God himself, that in all our measures w»
have ever been arluat-d by motives pure and ho
nourable, and that we have no other design iu view
than the preservation of ourselves, and tbe protecti
on of our common country. And we do most hum
bly supplicate that Being who decides tbe f.,te of
nations, to smile on our exertion, and to bless aud
protect this, our new established empire.
RUSSIA.
Substance of the Ulcse, uued February 2, I8!dr
by his Tmj erid Majesty, on the subject of Finance,
after having received the advice of liis Council of
State.
All the Bank Assignats (the paper money of the
country) now in circulation, are once more dec! :iwl
to form port ot the National Debt,' end^uaranterd
by all the wealth ol the empire. From thepreaeut
moment, the Bank Assignats shall receive no "in
crease. In order to pay the National Debt, a lots
shall he opened in the int|riour of the cotmby, at
fixed places. In order to provide for all expenses,
and to reduce the taxes to their formjn state, it is
ordered, provisionally, for the pres®t year, and
•ntil the puhlicalion of-general regulations for the
finances and taxes, that the following additional
impost* shall take place-: .
An increase of 2 rubles a head on the crown pea
santry
An impost of 3, 2j, end 2 rubles, according to
thevaiious governments, on the peasantry occupi
ed in cultivating the lands df the state.
Citizens employed in the arts and Other branches
of public industry, nhall pay 5 rubles.
Countrymen trading in Loth capitals shall pay
for every shop 100, 30, und 25 rubles^jccording to
localities, and besides those of tlie^d guitde, 1|
per cent, of the capital they have declared Iher.t
selves possessed of, and those of the third auihte.
25 ruhlcs. 6 *
Foreign tradesmen of hmh capitals shall pay
100 rubles, their partners 40, and their workmen
20 rubles.
In loth capitals a duty of one half ruble shall be
raised on houses, in virtue of the existing impost.
The tax on traders shall receive an increase of J
copeck on the produce of industry and the capital.
The price of salt, formerly fixed at 40 Copecka
per pood, shall be raised to one ruble.
The impost on ropper shall be augmented 3 ra
bies per pood. : .
The Custom House
duty on impartedgoods shall
be raised from 210 to
40$ rub I vs, and in proporti*
on.
Stamps have also experienced an advance in
price. - * "•
Tbe nobility shall assist in relieving the wnnla
of the state, by giving.* duty go copecks tor &
wry peasant in their possession. ,► L&p. ftp.{