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1)AY RVtNUtO, OCTi 297 1810. v
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*s||lifip»ve been t&sonabfjr conjectured, that
^rmrtroag, transmitted the Duke it
:-:J^:^rtaret\ lattgft® Mri TMcxty, which the latter
;:J4i v t|wnoninicated to Marqm JVtttetUg, that despatch*
lr>- [? «s wereat thesame time fmjgpdedby General Arm*
(>r»g furthfPgove'rnraent. Either this has not
ijthe cate, tor tba communications of General
strong a£bot of a natare to be made publick
at this time. TT Jl are to judge from what is before
tffthe pubTkk, it may ^^bferred, that the'President
*' Jkws not consider tb^Doke dr Cadore's letter as
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’invocation Of the French decrees, which violate
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/American fights; for in such case, the fourth sec*
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lion of the act of May last, directs the President
f r'
to issue his proclamation declaring that fact.—•
IJVhatever may be tbe proper construction which
xnu»t end will be pot upon the letter of the Duke d«
C adore by every one who will examine it, we think
i it evident, that the French government intended
that this letter should be- considered as a revocation
. of the ttetree*1; that the American government
#ought to view it in the same light, and art accord
ingly. It would not be the first time that the Em
per our has undertaken,, to determine whai this go
m
venmirnt ought to do. As for example, when
p -# - ChrBpagny, (now Cadore) said we ought to be at
war with England—-again, when ws passed the
, .noa-intercourse law, a measure undoubtedly of a
* municipal nature, the emperour considered it as an
^ * attack upon his rights,' and confiscated our vessels
and cargoes, ’ ■ _ ' , .
,1 ’ ' From these upd other instances that would be
%'C Ctfedv we ha vs no doubt that the French government,
“looking at the 4th section of the act rtf May last, will
j: determine that the President having received official
notice of the letter already mentioned, ought im
mediately to have issued his Proclamation; and net
w
having jo done, Buonaparte will consider himself
•t libe4ph> act as he phases. We presume no one
can'understand os, as intending to say or insinuate,
that .upon (his occasion the President has not acted
with perfect propriety. We are only endeavouring
Jti
4o shew in what manner faia condact will be consi
dered by a man who is accustomed te consider his
fiord as law for ths world, and who cares bnt little
what others think* We would hope that our mer
;k"*'
chants will not permit their spirit of enterprise to
geHtbe better of their prudence. If they should
immediately, and without waiting for the sente of
their government, or to speak more correctly, dis
regarding tito sense of the government, announced
by withholding the proclamation, trust their pro
perty in the power of Napoleon, they will have
aptly their own impendence to blame for all losses
that may ensue. Let us suppose that some hun
dreds of our vessels should depart for France, and
Itie natrons under ber foairoul, end should arrive
•Mheif destinations, they will, we apprehend, be
exposed to great danger. By their arrival, if not
tjff 't.
by other means, the French government will learn
U%
tbdt.no proclamation has been issued by the Presi
dent, conformably to the fourth section of the art
already mentioned, consequently that our govern
ment has not believed in the revocation of the de
crees as announced in (be Luke de Cadore’s letter—
tmd that their ships of war are still excluded from
otrrwettt*. These rircamstances will furnish cause
’•f Complaint and pretext, for another sequestration
$ c
of all -American .property. The immense supplies
^|r ,oif.drticles ttnt were wanted by France that will be
carried from England, added to those which will be
•/* carried from this country (if our merchants sre not
.HCv
Cautious) will be sp great as to give Napoleon no
. fear of wanting for sotu* time ; consequently policy
k 'f' will not induce hidp even to temporise ; at any rate,
^ VAhe temptation (or seizure and sequestration will be
apt to pteyuil qver any remote objects of policy—
. J jinlice we consider out of the question, as forming
an obstacle. ^ Onee. more We venture to hope that
oar couotrymen will baupon their guard, for there
to be accomplished by
is a dark scheme of
revocation of the
h decrees as announced
jfe-AalettVt^f Cadore.
trm tfs Jfiiiunat Intelligencer, of Wednesday last.
situation in which Grcat-Britaio
jtjn relation to the United States by
tion «t the, French, decrees, and appreben
giye that ebe may ba put tno munilrstty m the
jrroftg, attempts have been made by the federal
' ' finu to produce an impression that a bare repeal
h|' Glkat Britain of her orders in council, would
comprehend such a modification of her unlawful t.
dicta as would come within the meaning of the act
congress of May last, A slight consideration
liill shgw that this impression is founded m error/
^f|The«e.t df congress requires such a revocation or
-inutliticatipn fOf their edicts by the befiigerents as
that they eball reaee to violate the neutral coin*
tnsrce of the Uni ted,States/' If we give credit to
slegterjif tbs duke de Cadote, ns extracted from
.IBrtUtb pa^ra, such a revocation by France wd)
ave taken place on the 1st of the ensuing uiouto,
contemplated by our net;. If in the same
'gpynnenhe Bfrtiah fcovernmentdnea m% within 9
montbs lberrafter, revoke ■lts;i|dfcrf* viHating' the
, . the edicts ns
nrClNMdf be such a me
yfttmuSpM’f ahllreasd to
violate the neutral com'
thi 'Ujnited States f By no means, w«
./V'fWifejji.' TTts British viedatioa of ,«ur ashtul ««a
s&to f£-v-. • f >■ ■ v >> ,
%; 'Mi.
: «»r*» tat*. n1«Jwm **»ffued to tier ordetfciB
Cflunnl. T&-gtmn bet oa tarit « footing iare*
latino to^Hif rdl c dnrftierr e, as wool* avtbo.
rixsthe execottvcio issue his proclamation declar
ing th< fact of hef huvif^ to modified ' tar a
'diets as that they have erased to rickets the
neutral commerce of the United States, she mo#
revoke her blockading, proclamations, v^hich she
has herself declared to be illegal; and as the
impressment. of our seamen it a violation of the
maiilime.rights of the United States, and of course
of our neutial comnierce, it appears to us that
she might even be required totally to abandon
that practise before the'provisions of the act of
May last could be considered ms complied with.
Bui the federal prints argue, that GreatJkitain
never will yield the principle of blockade tiptpro
clamation, which they pronounce to be a part of
the old maritime law. They seem afraid lest
the least measure of justice should be dealt to
the United States by Great Britain; and really,
in tbeir zeal for her adherence to injustice, o
verleap the barriers uf truih, and trample facts
under foot with the greatest indifference. They
have undertaken, trusting to the ignorance or short
memories of tbeir leaders, to state that the Uni
ted States have never protested against the prin
ciple ot paper blockades. We affirm on the contra
»jr, vufl V wic ijiiiLfu lid VC IJC\ Cl i CdbCO IU CO II*
tend for the true definition of blockade, the legiti
macy of which was in 1804 officially acknowledged
hy the British gnvernmeri't, and the violation ot it
declared to be a grievance. And is this acknow
ledged grievance that which the federal editors
declare Great Britain never will abandon! Are
her own official acts, disclaiming the principle,
held of no account f Or is the new school of
public law, one of whose prominent features is a
total disregard of neutral rights, more to their
taste ? Let them give general publicity to the offici
al document which we published a week ugo—let
them apprize their readers that the British gov
ernment m 1804, thiough their minister Mr. Mer
ry, has denied the legality of any blockade, unless
in respect to particular ports actually invested, even
in which case vessels bound to such ports ought
not, they acknowledge, to be captured until pre
viously warned not to enter them: let the peo
pie know that a violation of this plain principle
was acknowledged to be a grievance of which the
United States had a right to complain. This sim
ple document, and it is but one of a host of stub
born (acts, selected on account of its peculiar ap
plication, has put to rout all the forces of those
prints, which had as usual arrayed themselves in
opposition to American rights, and on the side of
European domination. They have not, with but
one or two exceptions thafwe have seen, republish
ed it, and it is probable that they will not, and for
the best of reasons, that it falsifies the uniform te
nor of their assertions. It ought not here to pass
unnoticed that these editors must wilfully have abet
ted injustice and encouraged the instruments of it,
for they could not but know of this decision of the
British government in 1804, which has been subse
quently disregarded in practise.
We apprehend that if it shall appear, when the
official accounts shall be received, that the act of
Franca is a bona fide transaction, according to our
law Great Britain must revoke her edicts, under
whatever name, violating our neutral commerce, or
by the operation of the law we are placed in a state
of non-intercourse with her.
There is little doubt but G. Britain will revoke
her orders in council, issued subsequent to the
French decrees but that is not enough. Every vio
lation of neutral right is oat an order in counri!,but
it is not therefore the less a violation. If by a per
tinacity in adhering to her infractions of national
law and neutral rights, she is placed in a state of
non-intercourse with us, it will be her own act, de
liberately performed, with the law of the United
States before her—a law irrevocable too, because it
will have been acted uuder in relation to one of the
belligerents, and could not be repealed without such
a breach of good faith as the United States will not
be guilty of, whatever example may have been set
by other nations.
REMARKS.
If (he preceding article is to be considered as a
mere editorial effusion, we may set it down for as
much as it is worth and no more; but if we are to
look upon it as proceeding from an official source,
or containing the sentiments of the Cabinet, we may
prepare ourselves for fresh conflicts with the Bri
tish government, even after the Orders in Council
are rescinded, of which no doubt appears to be en
tertained. A great deal is said respecting paper,
blockades, we do not know of any blockades which
deserve, what we understand is meant by that
term, that has not been ordered in ronsequenceof the
Berlin and Milan decrees, and which of course will
cease with them. The British government has loag
since announced sits sense of a blockade, it has late
ly been pubtished, as communicated by Mr. Merry
when be waB minister. It is very true, that the
principles there laid down, do not accord with the
Napoleon code, for that requires aa investment by
tea and land. If we ate to be regulated by tbe Na
poleysrode, we roust depart from principles which
wc have ourselves recognized, and acted upon. When
the United States declared tbe port of Tripoli in
blockade, and condemned vessels attempting to
force it, they did not invest Tripoli both by sea and
land. That the blockades. wbirb are ordered by
the British government, are more extensive than
bat been heretofore known, is very true, and which
arises from her comparative maritime strength, with
that of her enemy, enabling bar to station a force at
ho many and distant pifints.;-^,^: j :
The National Intelligencer offers some ingenious
Suppositions respecting what further demand*til
>e made by our government on the British goverm
meat, after t^e orders, in council 'are 'rescinded. ; We
hope our government will assert it's rights against
hoih belligerents, withoot which the spirit of <hi
act of May lest.wiH not be complied with, unless it
was intended to be partial,and lo be confuted to ane
them only.' Qur government wilt certainly re
tydre tbatJfraKt shall restore all the ships. *•» tie*
$£ ). • V
tahted iafruaee, aad make compensation fo> thotif
whkb have bees eonfijaiUd and *#M;nntil those
twPactl of justice ay* pet formed |i'the part of
France,oor neutral limits aie violated,, the detenti
on of the property, it a continuation of the first vio
lation, and it wi^rfiit iu effect and in essence as
long as our property is detained, or compensation
withheld. ' * ’ ■* '
Iti|gs fact highly creditable to the state of Con
necticut, and to the administration of its affairs, that
on the 30th of September, according to a report
laid before the legislature, “ there was nothing due
from any town or sheriff to the state for taxes or
any other account on the books of the treasury.”
This article is copied from the National Intelli
gencer, and does no credit U» the candour of that
paper. We shall only add that the affairs of that
truly republican (or as the democrats call it tory)
state, ate altogether under federal management:
they have no Browus, iiul wells, and other worthies
of the reformed school to purloin the publick mo
ney^ We wish the affairs of all the democratick
states weie as well managed.
The London Statesman (of the llth of August),
a most violent opposition paper, whose editor is in
Newgate, says:
“ It appears that the mn9t active and efficient e
nemy to the British interests in the United States is
the editor of the Aurora, whose name is Duane,
and who was forcibly expelled from Calcutta, hy
Lord Wellesley, for attempting to violate that
noble lmd's arrangement for preserving the liberty
of the piess in India. MK Duane is stated to pos
sess considerable talents, and great.influence in A
merica. His influence, indeed, pel vades the whole
of the United States, having some share in a con
nexion with every newspaper published in the deino
crutic interest. The consequence of Mr. Duane is
lully recognized by the American government, by
whom he was some time since appointed a colonel
in the army.”
Died—Last night, Miss Mahgaret Fry,
daughter of Mr. John Fry, 01 this borough.
We are informed, that a letter has been received
in town, d«led Paris, Aug. 26", which positively
stairs, that all A me i lean property under sequestra
tion, tluoughoul all Fiance, has been liberated.—
We have no, been able to procure a copy of ibe
letler• Phil. Gaz.
t
Pennsylvania Election.—The following additional
results are ascertained.
Westmoreland County.
Wm. Ftnoley 1333
John Kirkpatrick 1072
Armstrong county.
Findley 205
Kirkpatrick 371
It is supposed that Mr. Findley is re-elected.
John Snnlie, esq. is re-elected to congress with
out opposition.
Aaron Lyle, esq. is also re-elected in opposition to
Thunias L. Birch.
Washington County.
Lyle 1344
Birch 50'4
Robert Wbitebill and David Bard are re-elected
without opposition.
In York couuty the Republican ticket was suc
cessful.
The following is the state of the poll for congress
in the cuunties of Chester, Lancaster and Berks :
1L Davi4 66T6
Juseph Lt-fever . 65ii6
I. M. Hynemaa 6211
D. Hosier 5770
Sami. Bethel 5437
Mr. J. Biddle 5410
The three first, composing the Republican ticket,
have of course succeeded.
Mr. Piper is supposed to be elected to congress in
the place uf Mr. Rea.
Ebeuezer Huntington, esq. is chosen representa
tive from the stale of' Connecticut to the present
congress, in the room of S. W. Dana, appointed se
nator.
We understand that official information has been
received of the destruction, by tire, on the I3tb inst.
of the powder manulactory ot New Lebanon, in the
county of Columbia, containing raw materials and
powder belonging to the state ot New-York and the
proprietors, ol considerable viflue.—[A'ew-l'orA C’o
lumbian.
From a Liverpool Price Current of September 8.
B. P. Sugars have raised but little this week—
browns are a shade lower, but other kinds remain
the same.
Coffee continues dull—a sale of 860 bags Iiavan
na was advertised for yesterday, but withdrawn—
the first lot of good middling being taken in by the
broker, at 95s.
The holdeis of peaTl ashes still evince much re*
luctance in bringing forward their slock for sale—
the demand has been very brisk all week, 44s was
offered and refused on Thursday lor 300 barrels Bos
ton pearls, and yesterday th>* quantity was sold at
45s a 46s. Montreals are becoming scarce and
veiy much sought (or. Were our markets on a par
with others we might fear that the orders would be
transmitted elsewhere, but as we are below them,
buyers may be induced to give some little advauce
in order to effect their purchases. Pot ashes, also,
are much inquired for, and good qualities are again
rather difficult to be met with—prices though not ad
vauced are much firmer; COO barrels Muhtreal pots
were sold yesterday at 44s—they were tfot ’prune.
The currency of ashes being now moderate, the con
sumption appears to have become regular and ex
tensive, and from the present aspect of the market,
there it very little probabiUiy of eitfeei poti or
peat la going lower.
Rice has. given way—some parcels offair oM rife
has been sold at 22s 3d and good rice would not
feting titore than 24s—|he prospect of a favourable
harvest has probably induced holders toaccept low
er prices..... /y■ , 1
t The late pnrchases of turpentine having taken off
sneh lot* as were brought forward, very few parcels
«T* no* offering forigle, higher price* al* deoiand
' -i‘\" y < y ■
ed, ahd though nOroeansiia. A ’
possible that vu|#.«le«ittte tuay b*qbt*ined % thi**
heifer most be udderiiood of goAd jjj&lities, for
inferior parcels are almost otwalsableY'a lot of this . T;
latter description consisting of 1400 barrel* was . '
offered by pnbliek sale on Wednesday; and taken i» >f •
by the broker, 14s being the highest price offered_ 'V'
Is mAre would perhaps boy the parrel—Tar ism good
and regular demand—a lot of 1200 barrels was of- ’
fared by auction on Wednesday, and the whole was
sold off the quay at 27* for the first 200 barrels,*
and the remainder at 27* 3d. A lot of Wilmiuggjf|
tar wasnold on That’sdayat about 27*.
Wheat, dour, and oats are again lower—
some demand lor dour in bond. •'* ^
Wheat, American per 70lb. 14‘9 a HR S
Flour do. per bbl. ■> ' 66 a 6$ ,
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SICILIAN GENEROSITY.
Taken from the Reports of the London Humane So- ,
' aety. > v ' C* ' Vv
Twoof bis Sicilian majesty's gallies being <m.
cruize, pursued and louk an Algerine vessel of
guns, and 100 men ; the prize was srudifjapfcj^
and whilst lying under guard at the MnHfi' ymnig'
gentleman, then bathing, was seized with therramp
und immediately sunk, in the presenceof numbers,
who did nut attempt any (lung for his relief. One
of the Algerine sailors, who was standing oqgtlm
gun-wale of the prize, instantly jumped intothe
water ill having laid hold of the body in its rise*
tied one end of a handkerchief round the shoulder,'1*
the other end of which he fastened to his own^hd
swam with it to shore. The drowned person wits
recovered by proper applications'; and the marquis -*^s
de Pahuchi, whose sou was thus preserved, being A
introduced to the King, threw himself on bis knee*,
and requested the liberty of the gallant Algerine. * *
Mis Sicilian majesty’s reply was truly no Me,-*.
“ Your request, sir, said he, is both reasonable and
humane; tlip Moor is yours, and yob may disposal
of him as you please.—The remainder^ the crew
are mine, and by the lows of war perpetual slaves,
but they are free from this moment. Ten righte
ous men would have saved Sodom from the wrath
of the Almighty, and shall not one gallant and
mane man, who hat risked his life for an enemy,
and testoied to me so valuable a subject, merit the
pardon of a few companions.” Next day an order
was published for their release, and tliey departed
amidst the acclamations of the populace. *
Washington, October 2dJ
The Washington Racts commenced yesterday.—
Six horses started for the purse, which was taken
by Mr. Bond’s grey horse Hampton, after two facaU *
of beautiful running, both of which he beat.
Annapolis Races.—On Thursday last the Jockey
Club Purse of 300 dollats was run over the Anna
polis course, and won by Mr. Bond’s grey horse
Hampton, beating three others. %
Hartford, (Con.) Oct. 22. '
The following persons are chosen by the freemen
of this state, Representatives to the 12th Congress'
of the United States, viz.
Levis B. Sturges, Jonathan 0. Mostly, Benjamin .
Tallmadge, hpaphroilitus Champion, Timothy Bitkin,
jun. Lyman Law, and John Davenport, jun.
, ' New York, Oct. 22.
Extract of a letter from a passenger on board of tSht'
ship John and Edward, at Sandy Hook.
Sanity Hook, Oct. 17,1810. &
Dlar Sir,
I have just time to write to you a line by th#„
pilet, to say 1 am happily arrived here alter a paa-5
sage of 52 days from the Bristol channel in the ship
John & Edward. Our passage has been a very dis
agreeable one, from many heavy gales of wind ami
generally a prodigious si a; before we^mwlied lh«
banks of Newfoundland, we carried aflKour main?
topsail yard in the slings, and sprung our bow-.‘
sprit; and on the eastern edge, on the 22d ult. Ijn
iug to in a tremendous storm, at ten at night, wa
found our rudder gone; fortunately, however, by
the greatest exertions the main piece of it was aav*
ed from going off with the rest, as it bung by the up*'
per pinlbaj, and the next day was got on brngji. An
attempt was then made to steer her by rig' .
a spare spar with a cable and guys on bet q
but without effect; the ship was so deep am|*.fp
heav ily laden that she was ungovernable. Tbniipy
coud day after the failure of this experiment, we act
about making a new rudder out of a spare main*)
yard, the pieces of which secured to the old main
piece by old bolts, and cutting up the iron bead
rails, and compleated by a long brace and a shift
one of the lost rudder, which were saved by their'
hanging in the gudgeons, though the long one was
much bent and slightly fractured—two days after*
wards it was happily finished, and the weather pro
videntially proving moderate, we were fortunately
enabled, after some hours labour, to ship it and
proceed on our voyage, the captain, the officers,'
and the ships company have great merit on this in
teresting occasion, in the preservation of the .ship
and cargo, and I believe it is the first time a rnd&r
was made and hung at sea, uuder the like circum
stances. The owners and underwriters will doabt
Uss feel themselves highly indebted to the gallant,
and indefatigable exertions of a few melt, who have
saved the ship and a valuable cargo froiu des tract*-'
on, and brought her safe into port.
„ Los cos, September'5. "if
An extraordinary person has sprung up in Puw
in the person df M. Comte, a ventriloquist, wboon
lire, according to bis own arrounttjlas often butifr
endangered by his performances. In Spain he
fc-'i
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rowly escaped being hi
led ; in Germany tliu (_,r.
SuUts would haVe bea
him to death (a rirrum
stanre totally unknown iu that country)
at Tribourg, where Ihe leased them rather li - mnrh
In another place he renewed the mir« f- n,|,V,
eras ass. A peasant unable to get forward With'
his sluggish DongeyJ fell unmercifully upon the
poor animal, and thusaddressed his master ’~1Jdg
not God Almighty created us all equal* It tf fane
for us at letogtk to change our parts. Descend then
and let me mount thy bade. The peasant. Who W
the coarse of his life, had never heard any hot top''
legged asses spaek, wa» excessively terrified, sprang'
ffom bis seat; and ran away, firmly convinced that'
hip poor
Donkey was possessed withtlipdevQ.
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