Norfolk gazette and publick ledger — Norfolk [Va.], 1810-06-11 00:00:00, page 3

bfpphxMa nadeEwhUk-1 hava servstl to
cspgme writhe r««l»«d 1 truM as svWoIks of my
tvan under wmghty diapdoMtafem, thsfeble efforts
; »f mybumhlc t*I*atr-to the service «f myeoontry.
' fkmAe^mta rndilf reconciled myself tn this
■ »esolat\o«,firwm a persuasion that underpresent
circamstances Ihave it not in my power to>b# par
ticularly useful to nay constituents and from a hope
thit h opportunity will be afforded them of confer*
liogtbeir suffrages on a * arrestor whose political
, opinions are in unison with my own, and ability to
serve them is [ieater. With much respect,
Voarobsdieat servant,'
JOHN STANLY.
THE PUBLICK LEDGER.
MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 11, 1810.
The hon. Samuel W.. Dana, a distinguished
member from the state of Connecticut, of the
House of Representatives, has been elected .a Se
nator of the United States for that state, in the
place of the hon. James IIillhouse, who has ae
eepted a state appointment. Mr. H. has been a
. Representative or Senator from the state of Con
aecticot for nineteen years.
Ma. Stawlv’s Circular is concluded in this
day’s paper. We have devoted a yery Urge propor*
tion of the last atad present number of the ledger,
to this Letter, and we have done so with great plea
sure. The publick are rarely presented with a
more-manly, and able exposition of publick affairs.
Let no one refuse to give a patient reading to this
latter on account of its length, ora candid one, on
account of the freedom with which publick men and
measures are exposed. Those who will not read
»«auoot expert to be informed, and those who com
plain of the severity, most remember that the fault
is not in him who applies it, but in those who have
deserved it.
If any thing ran open the eyes of the deluded peo
.* pu, aurely the view which Mr. SUnly has fur
- sished of the expenditure of the publick money,
thust shew in all its naked deformity, the hypocri
tical cant of economy. Nor ought the attempt
. made in the last congress to silence debate, to be
pasted over without severe reprehension,
Tie CievaStr On it' Proposals.
The voluntary offer to establish the boundary of
Louisiana and pay the American merchants eight
millions of dollars in compensation for the excesses
committed bv the Spaniards, was rejected from pure
deference to Buonaparte. Certain squeamish fears
uf offending him and not any intrinsic difficulty at
tending the overture, prevented the executive from
accepting what we fear will never be again offered,
and if offered, may not be so easily realized. It
was gravely pretended, that to receive what we have
been contending for years is our right and our due,
would hazard our neutrality if acrepted from the
chevalier Onis. As if we might not take onr own
from any haadthat offered it, without being poluted
by the contract or depriving another of whatbelongs
to him. A most precious neutrality it was, which
was thus fastidiously guarded! It was a neutrality
nil one side. At the very moment our government
declined receiving eight millions as restitution for
impoverished families, from the Spaniard, out of
mere 'courtesy Co the usurper of the Spanish throne,
he was reducing as many more to want by seizing
fight additional millions ; and we should not be
Surprised, if by a like return for our condescentinn
W declining a concession of its boundaries hsshould
seize or revolutionize Louisiana itself.
As things have come to this pass, what excise
fan be given frr not soliciting from the chevalier
J^nia a repetition of bis proposal? Perhaps thenio
ntyis jet at his roratnanJ. Perhaps the fotnte
government of the provinces, which border upon
Louisiana, might ratify his arrangement out of de
ference to the mother country and as an early pledge
' of good neighborhood, after the changes now hap
pening, and which inevitably must cvento&te in a
■lore frequent interchange of good or bad offices.
At any rate nothing wool*) bf lost by the attempt.
fed. Rep.
„ There is mnch art and hut little of sincerity in ths
mini and dubious animadversions of the National
Intelligencer on the condort of the emperor and
king Napoleon towards us. The sly recommenda
tion of the embargo, with which the reluctant and
suspicions declamation agninst the rdbberies of
France is concluded, is a clear indication to me of
* the course which ourvery able and impartial admi
nistration means to pursue, and of the self debase
ment and tuio with which intelligent men will per
reive we are again threatened by the greatest fools,
' or greatest knaves that aver governed and misgo
verned a country, AH this is well understood by
the Court Editors, whose presses already groan, in
consequence of the hint which was given in the
Court Casette, with encomiums on tho embargo,
with clumsy, indeed, but ardent descriptione of
' what these parasites, in obedience to the mandates
of the Palace, are pleased to term the effiray of thai
Quackery of all Quackeries, and with insinuations
that we must again resort, 1 suppose by way of
dignified resistance, to that measure which has en
riehad England, rendered her independent of, and
very careless about us, at which France has sneer
ed and for which she has footed and plundered us,
pad wbirh, besides converting us into a laughing
Mock for all the world, has mads bankrupts of thou
sands, drained the national chest, deprived us even
of hope of more prosperous times, end sunk us to a
depth of degradation more profound and overwhelm
ing than any .other independent nation ever suffered.
-There may he another motive ftir the sudden and
•itfuJ invective of our court gazette against the
quondam Spouse of thy repudiated Josephine. If
it oeiroe iu»i a new Freoch *liuiater|.“a noble
ntpn ofeanK. a member of tbf legion of dishonour,
is coming out, U not the teeming impartiality, a long
lishted *
Otlf1. intfflwWI wrkats tlin Mom nnirtialotV
^ *w. . * euaww.swww** w(>«a tuc. wcw mtomri |
•cofltp * mnd threat* **4 Iurkv u» utly
bprne, to satisfy ^budupeujif the court, the slaves
party, aad to nubia the demagogue* who riot
V-'
Frm the Sattm Regkter.
Mestrt. Editort—l observed in the Centinefof
Wednesday last tome observations on ibe condurt
of captain Lake, late commander of his Britannick
majesty’s sloop of wat Recruit, when oil the West
India station, relative to his singular and inhuman
behaviour to Robert Jeffries, one of his crew, who
was by his savage barbarity forced on the barren
desert island of Sambrero, without clothing or sus
tenance.
As the English were in April last fitting out a
vessel for Sambrero, and elsewhere, for the disco
very of this person, it may not he unnecessary, so
far as my knowledge extends, tu state a few re
marks on this subject,
Robert Jeffries, the peison in question, was taken
from the above mentioned island early in the month
of January, 1808, by Captain John Dennis, in the
schooner Adams from Mariinieo for Marblehead.
His situation, at the time of his deliverance, wn«
affecting, and truly distressing. The writer of tins
understood from Cspt. Dennis, (who is now at sea)
that be had been on the rock 9 days!—that his only
subsistence was a little water, which be procured
from the rain, and the cockles which grew on the
rocks! He was so weak and emaciated,' iis* to he
unable tn stand on deck withoat assistance. He as
serted that it was the first time of his being at sea
-f-that he was impressed—and that his crime was,
the taking from one of the casks in the hold, two
quarts of common beer! That thq. captain of the
Recruit refused to give him, when'ordered into the
boat, either bread or water, though earnestly impor
tuned by the Lieutenant, who humanely commiser
ated bis unhappy situation, and generously, when
on leaving the island, took bis shoes from his feet,
and gave them to Jeffries,—who was entirely desti
tute.
Jeffries, I am informed,.is a Blacksmith by trade,
and resides at Wenham, in this county. Last sum
mer he visited, this town, and earnestly expressed his
gratitude for the kindness he had received, and the
pleasure he experienced in being able by his occupa
tion and industry to support himself.
As the government of Greal-Britain appear anx
ious to know the fate of this man; and as I likewise
am anxious that a creature like Lake, who must be
destitute of every principle separate from a had one,
should meet the reward of bis savage baseness, 1
I send you this for publication.
S.
Marblehead, May 31, 1810.
F*om the Evening Post.
BAN—OR PROCLAMATION.
Don Juan de Escalona, Captain of the army and
commander oftlie civil and military department of
this port of La Guayra, appointed by the Supreme
Government of Cararrae.
Dear hellow Citizens—It hat been resolved Ly
the Supreme Provincial Government, created ye
sterday 19th inst. by the unanimous consent of all
classes of the illustrious, loyal aud heroic people of
Caraccas, that all the authorities which came di
rectly from the metropolis should be suspended, on
account of the critical circumstances which sur
round the peninsula. The distance at which weare,
the uncertainty of the news coming from thence,
the versatiihy of the various forms of government,
which have in so short a time, been adopted thither,
and the suspicion with which we must look upon
emissaries, who, in the name of the late Central
Junta, have arrived on this continent, with a view
of persuading us to submit blindly to the remainder
of one that calls herself New Junta, and which is
now sitoated on one point of Spain, that has no
direct communication with the other provinces of
that kingdom—of a Junta, which, by the general
cry of those inhabitants, who have uniformly been
disappointed in the hopes of preserving their inde
pendence and liberty, has become suspicious. Lastly
of a Junta, tumultuously formed in the port of Ca.
dis, without getting the general consent of the nati.
on, which could constitute her a legal one: They
have rendered it indispensably necessary to create a
new provincial government, in order to secure us
from tbe same disasters, which Spain has suffered
by the ambition of the Emperor of the French.
This is the only means which the people of Ca
raccas have thought sufficient to preserve the inte
grity of these provinces, as an essential part of the
Monarchy, and a sacred deposit of the ini-dnteslible
rights of our beloved Ferdinand 7mo, when comes
the wished for moment of bis liberty—at which ex
pires the general vote of Sooth America. Carac
cas glories in having been the first to show her pa
triotism and loyalty.
The present government flatter themselves, that
all the .citizens, animated with a true spirit, will
conuibote to give credit to tbe rectitude of their in
tention, in showing tbe most complete obedience to
the supreme resolutions of the authorities legally
constituted, which are to be made known.
And I, as commander and civil judge of this
port, invite all neighbors of all classes and ranks, to
keep the greatest tranquility, avoiding all secret
conversations, and meetings, which might be direct
ly, or indirectly, against the new established consti
tution—the infringers shall be treated as state cri
minals, and traitors to their country and religion.
And by this act the civil and military commander
bids and confirms it, desiring it to be publish'd by
bans and posted up at the usual places.
Lagoayra, April 20, 1810.
JUAN DE ESCALONA.
Certified, the 22d April, 1810.
MANIFESTO.
The province of Venezuela bet obtained by the
ardent patriotic of the neighbours of the Capital,
tire political dignity it might to have amongst the
true people of America: It has, with a patriotic
foresight, steered''itself from the influence that
might have oVer it, a government incapable of pre
tenring itself, and Which rould altetfge no Other
tight to keep up their former relations with us hut
the reciprocal advantage of tw6 countries which
hav» got the same king, the same language and the
same religion. Whatever may fmihi been the for
mer conduct nf Spain towtrdsVer colonies, Sift r«n
Jtot at present offtriiny oseiul reciprocal advantage
that would quintain her political Integrity 0
rSL__
main* of Spanish heroism i« Cadiz.—-Cadi*, «ver
burdened and abstracted by an ennrmouspopulutioo,
composed ol merchants and turn who, considering
'hi evil which hover over their heads, and the
means the nation possesses to avoid them, can
not sacrifice their fortunes*—Cadi* which producer
nothing, that has been supplied 'till now by the
people in possession ofthe enemy; that sees in their
power the water which th^ir.habitants must drink,
and which has nothing else i to oppose to the formi
dable power of France, but the rest of uur armies
in the Island of Leon, the fortifications of the city
and the maritime assistance of a foreign nation, that
has generously exposed her fate for the just cause
of'the Spaniards; bnt which the inhabitants of
Cadiz, oppressed by all the evils of a stege, will be
reduced uot only to yield to the imperious law of
necessity, but also to involve in their ruin the ge
nerous allies wbo Hre in her enclosnre, if they uo
not avail themselves of a good opportunity toeva.
cuate the place before this accident happens. The
province of Venezuela lias foreseen what must then
be the fate of the government to .which it has till
now been submitted, and that which awaited Ame
rica suddenly deprived of her former relations; she
has perceived the influence that the remainder of
the dispersed government might have over them,
and with the knowledge they previously got of lire
public behaviour of some of its members, has re
solved to guard itself against their pretensions to a
sovereignty, in whatever place of Amecicp they may
take refuge, and determined to assume said sove
reignty on herself, in order to be secured from the
pretensions of the other nations of Europe, from
the seduction of the French cabinet, and even from
the designs which the former Spanish representa
tives might have upon her; in no other view but
to preserve herself in the political dignity where the
present circumstances have placed her, to maintain
with all her power the rights of the lawful -dynasty,
and offer a state assylum to her beloved brothers of
Spain, not only against the French oppression, but
even against the attempts of any other European
nation.
Such hate been the principles which directed the
conduct 6f the neighbours o( Caraccas the IPth
April, when by ah equal and simultaueo'tis impulse
they were all heard calling out for a government
that should watch over their security and tranquili
ty; twenty four hours have been sufficient to form
this, abolish the old government apd consolidate
the new one, without having been noticed—having
not more than one opinion, nor having any parties,
and factions, nor even that license which the mob
gets to commit all kinds of disorders under pretence
of the general welfare, which the sensible and en
lightened class is animated with. The revolution
of Caraccas will be memorable in all the .histories
in the world, for the moderation and philanthropy
with which they joined themselves to form hot one
sole family, united by the interest of one country;
for the wisdom with which the new government
kept and fulfilled the duty of the angust confidence
trusted them by the people; for the provision
which they insured the public tranquility. They
provided for the security of their property, the re
gularity of ibeit exterior relations, the communica
tion with their provinces, the security of the differ
ent authorities, the exclusion of suspicious persons,
and the sanction of the new established power.
These have been provident cares which distin
guished the political independence of Carrarras,
aud induced her neighbours to praise themselves for
the resolution they took on the 2(Hb, when they
saw the pnblick opinion re-established and settled,
the chimerical fears that tumuli had created in each
other, vanished; every one relieved from his sur
prize, agitation and fatigue of a day, which might
have been as dreadful as all those like it, had it not
got the happy designs that distinguished it and
; which will render it ever memorable.
The new established government deserve* to have
the confidence of its constituents—'tis worthy oPit,
its members fulfil their duties with dignity, tfwy
have an inward confidence, and already depend on
that of tbeirneighbors, and nothing must be sacred
even from the strangers—but they know that cir
cumstances have not yet permitted them to give the
government those corrected and meditated forms
which characterize all civil institutions, that are
the sure guarantee of the general will, and which
consolidate and establish the universal vote of those
who have contributed to its formation, trinquihtv
and quiatness, which can only produce those com
Inflations, have been restored,and the confusion that
prevented that meditation required for so many in
terests has ceased. Then before jealousy comes
back again, they are about to give the new govern
ment that provisional fwrm it ought to have, until
they have made a constitution approved by the na
tional representative lawfully constituted, which
will sanction, consolidate and represent the pro*
vince of Venezuela, with a political dignity in the
face of the universe, which shall be organized and
governed in a way to make her inhabitant* happy,
which may be set as a useful and decent example to
Amei ica, and make hfr be respected by the nations
with whom she is to form connexions of recipro
cal utility, and s’how to Spain, that whatever may
be her fate, there is in America a people capable qf
maintaining the glory of the Spanish name, to save
the remains of that noble and generous nation, and
to render the fate of her unfortanale king less fatal
if he should *ecr recover that liberty of which be
is deprived.
JOSE DE LA LLAMOSA,
MARTIN TOVAR TONTE.
Baltimore. June 5.
Departed this life on Sunday the 3d intt. at fl
o'rtoek, Min WHITE, only daughter of DocUA
Campbell White of this cjty.'
itr*v •.Rur^*niei'fkrxt ^jg»|
nuKof the Wot Id, was wafted .from, thefraihii
fectionatflfeer and fohdeet, mother coqhfWiih.-.
•ndTWfn*u'
parent*, iki
UnttoruUpjutwbi
t|lb«rQHc|«, tuceoda
m
"POR the information of Mcrthantssndirthi
* cerned, 1 putitish the following* ttraW-df'
ai«1 letter I here, just received relative to U
men* of the Island of Cuba. rv < - "
flu Majesty Ferdinand 7th, end ik.-l*
“ the Recency of the kingdom, hssbpmvph
“ order that, dm •»«; the present riresyjrisian.
“ Fed and neutral vessel* be admitted' in, t£
“ of Havrmna, Saint Jtgo, TritudaB, and
“ *hs, withal! articles remitted tty rn
“ of 1778, for the free trade ffiWpaln ; in
“ dirton that tfier ore to take 11
“ said Island totlie amcwint of-thfe rtett pti
'■ likewise to prevent tmvggUng;siMbtbet*
‘‘ on of French floods ; it l*required that'
U nenrtilnH ivitK iiaetSCa.u. U! — file
being ef the growth or manufacture of Trane*, is
freely admitted in the above,cited pertf^- ^-y^f
4stmm Argute tt/fafafaftCoWgiil.
NORFOLK. THEATRE, 7
‘ • , r" -M -"tt' •
THIS EVENING, the
WiU be SMMt « telebfttti Cemedu it 'Ik'
Act»y catted ' ■ ••'
WIVES AS THEY WEREr
And. Maids as they Art.
To which will be added, the Musical Kfitertalnf^e^^f
WIVES METAMO RPHOSEui
Ok TJtg . ■ >
devil to fay.
Doors to be opened at Six, and the Performance
to commence at Seyen o’clock precisely. ; *; ||v
*3* Admittance On* D Uar.—Ti<kris In c hed
at the Ledger Office, and ft the Office o( the The*<
panorama. 4;
-'v\ . .
A OHAifD COLLECTIO* 0%
HISTORICAL PAINTING&
Will be exhibited at Rourke's Nev HMa^Mf
day Evening, 11th instant, and remain fori
lick exhibition but a short time.
Painting Fifnitb . *, , *
The ever memorable Battle of BUN
KER’S HILL. ’ ^
Where OeVral Warren is seen at the InstJWfRl
bis death supported by two veterans, tic, fcr—xK
Painting is executed in a masterly style ; the colours
are lively and natural j the various groupes of fidMrei
highly finished, large as Ufa, and real bkeMMnf
the most distinguished officers oft both tUka.
■ Pointing Second. .*•
The Bombardment of TrLpcdtee#
Here ail description must l>« baffled, as without
seeing it is impossible to conceive such aft. internal'
. Pointing Third.'
A Striking view of Brook Watson, &k
Many years Lord Mayor of ^be Cityof London.
He is seen in the winter attacked by an CnotftMfi
Shark, who seizes hitfi by the leg and tears ii fnun
the body at that instant the Stua's boat appears,
barely in time to rescue him from his periloUs-situa
tion. The charnctsrs liet'e afees large ai life, and
deemed by judges well worthy the aileifttotr of ihc
pubhek. *; ,ivl
.Pointing Fourth- . . « A
The burning of the Pi
Bv the gallant Capt.iin Stephen Det»tdP*Thi»
Painting is done from a drawing taken on jtSe spot,
by a gentleman concerned ifl this expedition. As a
Night Piece it has no equal for boldftess of design,
beautiful scenery, or magnificent horror.
■ Doors to be opened every day from ft emit ft
o'clock in the afternoon—A hd-on Tuesdays, •.Thufs
davs, and Saturdays, from ft in the morning until to
in the evening.—Admittance 50 cents— Children half
price.
Tickets for admission during the season, One
Dollar. • ' „
& Pamphlet, dncripM of tke Pointing, it* bo
ha/! at the door—Price 12 J CVftfa. ■
June It. tf
Atnatueft of thw
tend.
«* NQTICfc.
Proprietors and occuj
»y.on vyidj VV»«r-8tr««t, .frgm
Jklr. Jfliin W«rrea'» wrticn^^ou
will, pleas* take npUccthat |ti