Norfolk gazette and publick ledger — Norfolk [Va.], 1810-05-25 00:00:00, page 3

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law tha seaate, which that tody b*« very large
majority, and the nth«%tranrh of th«l|islatqr# by
• considerable, (bough smaller majority, finally ep
froved.
Having Bade tbit digression we return to the
more immediate object bf our present remarks. Eve
ry one remembers the letter wbirh was said to be
received from Mr. Pinkney addressed to Mr. Smith,
stating the disapprobation of Mr. Jackson’s conduct
by hi* government, and their determination to send
another minister of “ rank and talents.’' When this
letter was called fop, it wits private and confidential.
It will appear a little extraordinary that while the
National lutelligencer expresses so much disap
- pointment upon this subject, that Mr. Pinkney has
expressed none in his letter of the 21st of March.
It is insinuated that the Marquis Wellesley, having
seen the resolutions of Air.Giles, and the vote of the
senate, was highly accommodating, but having after
wards seen the proceedings of the bouseof representa
tives,and the publications of the federal papers he be
came less so. It has been the constant practice of
the democratiek party, to expect more from the ap
prehensions of the British government, than from its
justice. Hut if the fears of that government were to he
'operated upon, they must have been more so after the
■vote of (he house of representatives was known.—
The frnitlcas efforts of a minority in the house of
representatives, and the publications in our news
papers were very slender reliances for the British
government, and this eveiy man of reflection mast
know. But it is necessary to account in some way
for this change of conduct in the British minister,
and as nothing ran be found hetlrr, it must be as
cribed to the federal minority in congress, and In
the federal papers. In the first place, we have no
proof that there has been any change in the conduct
of the British minister upon this subject, and we
call for that proof—But admitting that there has
been this cWtoige, we are net prepared to permit
ths unjust inference which is drawn by imput.
jag this change to the federalists in or out of con
gress, If there really did exist, as the Intelligen
cer insinuates, (and others falsely assert) a party
opposed to their own Country, and devoted to Great
Britain, does any one three degrees removed from
an ideot, believe that the British government would
voluntarily destroy the influence and credit of that
party? And what course could be more likely in
such a case to produce such an effect, than that
which is now ascribed to the British minister ? fie
is made to raise our hopes and dbr expectations,
■nd then to disappoint both, pursuing a course as
injurious as it would be ridiculous. There are
other modes of accounting for all this affected die.*
appointment, and imputed change in the tons of
Marquis Wellesley.
The New-York and Massachusetts elections were
approaching ; the people were recovered from the
irst impressions which the rupture with Mr. Jack
son bad produced, the moment was critical, and
was seized upon with more minagement than can
dour. It was said the British government had
condemned Mr. Jackson, approved of what our go
vernment haft done ; they were Bending out a minis
ter of “ rank and talents” to replace this Copenha
gen Jackson, all this and much more was said, and
supported by letters from Mr. Pinkney, which one
bad read, and another bad heard read, federalists
even were enlisted to circulate the glorious tidings !
The effect was perceivable in those elections, but
they are over, and the truth must come out at last.
What is to he dnae ? It never would do to confess
that the people were imposed npon; no—that
would be too much—The safest and best way is to
chaige the British minister with duplicity of con
duct, and tojcill two birds with the same stone, to
Mrribe his duplicity to ths federalists in this coun
ty
Captain Ridgeway, who arrived at New York on
Saturday, in 18 days from St. Bartholomews, in
forms, that admiral Cochnne had annulled bis pro
clamation, interdicting trade between that Island
and the British possessions in the West Indies.—
This information was received at St. Bartholomews
a few hours befote capt. Ridgeway sailed.
NEW MARKET SPRTKG MHETI-sr., 1810.
2d day—Stakes far 3 years old colts, single 3 mile
heat, 5 subscribers, 200 dollars each, half forfeit,
Harrying 90 lbs.
Zachariah Brooks’* g c Marcena by Florizi-I, 1
William Haxall's s f Mermaid, by Waxy, 2
William Allen’s bf Lady Anne, by Bellair, 3
William It. Johnson’s ch c Play on, by Diomid 4
3d day—Proprietor’s Purse, 3 mile heats, §200.
William It. Johnson's b m Maria, by Bay
Yankey, 4 years old, lOOlbs. 3 1 1
Zachariah Brooks’s b h Lamplighter, by Di
omed, 5 years old, 1 lolbs. I 2 3
Wade Mosby’s ch h Rat ray, by C'ifden, ag
* ed, 1301 ha. 4 3 2
Thu’s F. Wilson # h h Wb./d-Tuo’i It, by
Wonder, 3 years old, 1 lOlbs. 2 ds
^Patties Hook Races.—Yesterday the Jockey
Club Purse, 4 mile heats, was run for over the
Towles Iiook course, (if itinay be so called) by Mr.
Hood’s grey hors* lUpipton, against Mr. Badger's
hay burse Bir SohWuHL Tt»" well known speed vf
both tbe|t horsrj had awakened curiosity and rais
ed expuMftua to ■ bighSjpdi. The Bret heat 5Jir
SoloinnnTeik the Waist foe start, and kept it until
*
tiufiwtida oft
lamjuurttrfi
as before, on tbe sarSe snot of ground, passed
both horses under the Or hip, enpheat hiut by about \
half a neck. This hast was ran in the remarkable*
short spartof 13 jnimjtea, some say 12,
It was remarked hy. some that they should liave
been far better pleased if the rider of Hampton,
hid not, they thought, unwarrantably crowded
Sir Solomon, while both werg at the top of their
speed on rising ground, the last quarter of a mile
in tbe last heat.—N. Y. E. Pott.
HIGHLY j\
IMPORTANT.
COMMUNICATED FOR 'ftlE EKEEMAX’s
JOURNAL.
Extract of a letter, dated Bordeaux, E
Wvary 18,
to a merchant i» this city.
“ I am of opinion that nothing ran prevent the
condemnation of all the American property in
France and Spain, as we have this day received po
sitive information that the enrperour has ordered all
the Aqneiican property under sequestration, a
mounting to thiity millions of francs, to he forth
with transported to Bayonne, Sold there, and the
procreeds placed in the public chest. In tins
country the Moniteur is considered as expressing bv
its publications the intentions' of government, and
many things have latterly appeared calculated to a
larm those interested in Amrriran rommerre. Yes
terday we read, for the fust time, in that paper, the
act of congress of March, 1809, suspending inter
course with France and England, andevidently pub
lished at this moment to justify this government in
the hostile measures it is Resolved to pursue towards
the United States, by representing the latter as the
aggressors. Although noae of the vessels arrived
in the ports of Spain have contravened any of the
existing French decrees, yet all American proper
ty has been indiscriminately seized, on arriving, by
the military authorities, on the ground that France
will not permit her allies to participate in a trade
denied to herself. *
“ I have just seen a letter from general Arm
strong, which states, that there is no hope of sav
ing American property from confiscation, and eve
ry thing tends to confirm this opinion.’'
From Ike Freeman’s Journal.
Letters upon Fiif.veil Influence.
No. llL
To tie People of tie United States.
The constitution m ikes it the duty of the presi
dent, “ Fioin time to time to give to. the formless
inhumation of the stale of the Union, and recom
trend to their consideration surh insusnret*, as he
shall judge necessary and expedient.” This dulv
Mr. J -fferson was not very imirh in the ltai.it of per
forming. Or rather, like Mr. Erskine, he depart
ed from the letter of his “ instructions,” to exe- ;
cute what he chose to deem thtir spirit. The gun
boat system, end tiie project of paying money to
Fnm e.as the prireof pence, under the pretence of
purchasing Florida from Spain, were prominent in
stames of this policy. IIis conduct, in both those
cases, will be reviewed at large, and with original
illustrations, in future numbers. A belter seriire
to the interests of political truth, and of course to
the “ GOOD OLD UNITED states,” can hardly be
rendered. The renew will involve a complete de
I nee ol the “ republican minority,” or democra
tic seceders from French policy, and will be follow
ed by their acquittal of the charge, that their con
duct resulted from impure motives, and was the con
.queiice of disappointment.
The power to give information to congress, could
not have been intendrd to mean the same as to
withhold information from the people. This con
struction would evidently be contrary lo tbe ac
knowledged theory of the constitution. It can ne
ver be too morh insisted on, by real republicans,
that the constitution is the act of “ We the Peo
ple," and that “ to secure the blessings of liberty,"
forms the summit of the climax descriptive of the
objects for which the constitution was ordained and
established. The political system of our country
was not calculated, by its authors, for the meridian'
of a region ruled by a “ dark divan.” It was meant
for a realm of light and lustre. It was never in
tended that tbe president should be secluded in a
“ Seraglio,” or shut up with “ Cardinals in con
clave.'' It was not contemplated that a weak, nerve
less, but intriguing president, nr any other presi
dent, with a small majority of obsequious partisans
in the legislature, should shroud that venerable bo
dy in darkness, and force tbe minority to debate and
act, week after week, and almost month after month,
excluded from the light of popular communication,
and almost from the light of Heaven. Tbe fra
mers of -the constitution, clearly, did not Contem
plate any surh thing as the communication of se
cret “ information” from the president to congress,
or they would have provided for' lhe exercise of a
power whirh they could deem n* less important
than that given to the two bouses of rongress to
keep a secret journal.
Bat the President, together with the senate, is
vested with the power of making treaties. Treaties
require secrecy. Yet the President has no power
to oblige even the senate to consider his commani
cations as confidential. That body must exercise
its own judgment in such a case. And the majority
has no other right to close the months of the mino
rity than what results from the authority giveu by
the constitution to both houses to “ publish a jour
nal, excepting such part* « map in their judgment
require secrecy.” Still a member of the minority
ought n«t, in any common rase, to publish any part
of the proceedings rontrary lo the will of the me
jority. Mr. Mason was censured for publishing
the British treaty, even by some of his own party.
But how far do the rights of the President, m con
sequence of the treaty making power, go to seal the
lips of the members of the house of Representatives ?
Cdn he communirate what papers he pleases to that
body, and, by a nod from his political Olympus, im
pose upon that body the degrading necessity of be
ing silent as to their contents, at his own discretion I
Is the injunction to produce a concealment of the
substance or the form of the doraMrUtS, <rf both
substance and foraa,oT of which, exclusively of the
other f Have the megnhers na right to examine the
subject lor themselves, and form an opinion whether
the papers communicated 4© or do not to.
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ft ! : .
S^fef-sfe^yteiS:.
#■? jisw:- ■;.»jt/i-^jg,
•« »k*J»« formwrwt lil irtatin, i*‘*o
wtti.beilljWgt for h|p*elfbnw t,r (,**~.
r««f-ci the opinion nMr e.^cotive upoo tbaV tub
|w*'l •» it not the betur opinion, even upon the
priocipbj of the dfmdrfatk themselves, that the,
bdbs« «rl represeulatives hake no previous Mgtncy
whatever in the matter of treaties, b»t a power,
and that to be exercised in extreme rnees only, 01
cherkiug the Fefeideot and senate, when the) make
treaties destructive to the state, by relosing to make
the appropriations necessary to carry such treaties
into effort ? An if this be correct, what power has
the President to commuMcfcte to the House docu
ments respecting a tresty contemplated or commen
ced, and what right has the House to act upon
them in that character? Ji sorb powers and rights
exist, are they unlimitti-d in duration as well as in
extent? Are they to operate upon particular cases,
not only in the present, but through every futuie
age ? Some of these, as I)r. Franklin said to the
House oi Lords, are deep questions. All of them
are momentous. It would be absurd to contend
that the right of imposing secrecy upon a member
of congress reuses to operate upon that member,
when he ceases to be a member. In that case, it
would only be necessary for a member to resign hi*
seal, to become entitled to the privilege of publish
ing the whole of the feerret journals of the body to
which he belonged. No, Let reasonable construc
tion be made in all doubtful cases. So far as the
light to impose the injunction of secrecy is (airly
warranted hy the constitution, it must be admitted
that the duration of the obligation resulting from
the exercise of that right, must depend upon Un
pleasure ol the body by whom it is thus constituti
onally execisrd. And it is certain that each bouse
of congress docs possess the right of keeping a se
cret journal of its proceedings, Its power to con
ceal political documents, relative to the “ common
defence and general welfare," is quite another thing.
ivih umrui5, wpcnttuy exproviNT 011P9, are noire*
gularlv a part of the journal. When printeii for the
use of tr\e members, they are printed in distinct
sheets, unconnected with the journal, and never
considered as a part of it, not considered even a*
appendices to to it. It the President rornmunicatts
papers professedly r fating to the intended origina
tion of a treaty, which papers are. nnt entered on
the secret journal, what have they to do with the
constitutional power ol the house to keep a secret
journal of its proceedings? VVlmt natural connexion
have they with the secret journal rather then with
the public one ? How can they tie considered as “ pro.
ceedings" of the house at all ? How, indeed, can the
house proceed to act constitutionally upon them ?
Did the Democrats ever pretend,neven til ip,, da\s
of ttie famous British treaty, thaf the house ol re
presentatives could <l»,tin aright of co-operating
with the President and senate in the origination of
a treaty, especially a treaty unconnected with the
legislative power to regulate romiuercet Or, if the.
house could not claim the right, that the President'
could communicate it to them ?
From this view of the subject it appears easy to
establish, most unanswerably and conclusively, that
the President possesses no constitutions i. pow
er, in any case what ever, to impose any injunction
of secrecy upon the members of the house of repre
sentatives.
Richmond, May £?.
FIRE—On Sunday morning, between 3 and 4
o’clock, we were alarmed in this city by the fire
bell—The manufacturing Mill of Mr. I Webster,
about 1$ miles above the city, on the Jam-* River
Canal, was in Haims—Supposed to have been set
on fire—to our great regret the mill house was con
sumed with one or two hundred barrels of flour
and more than a thousand bushels of wheat—also
a Cooper’s shop, near it, belonging to Mr. G dlego
—the Mill was insured in the Country Virginia
Assurance Society.
New York, May 18.
From Lisbon.—Capt. M'Crea, ol the ship Lain
uia, who arrived this forenoon Irotn Lisbon, informs
that it was currently reported when be let! there
(April 4) that the French had, or were about to
withdraw their troops from before Crfdiz, for the
purposeof concentrating their whole force into on*
body to attack the brttish and Portuguese armies
Troops were conslanily arriving there Irotn Eng
land. Three regiments landed the day before capt.
kl’Crea sailed.
Gazette Marine Memoranda.
ARRIVED.
Sch'r Diademia & Hope, Kelly, 9 days from
Boston, to the Master.
S> h’t Four Sisters, Haynes, 7 days from Bever.
ley, Spars, to the Master.
New York, May 1<J.
Brig Camilla, Shuler, 36 days Irom St. Sebasti
ans, in Ballast, and 76 American seamen and dis
patches.—‘-Left there, ships Commodore Rodgers,
Shaler, New York, detained; Sally, Scott,' do. do;
Wells, Lamstm, Salem, do ; Franklin, llyalt, Bo»
ton, do ; brig Mary Ann, Lawson, New York, cap
lured; Hawk, Bond, do. detained ; St. Tammany,
Hussey, do. do ; Rose in Bloom, Olcnit, do. do ;
Fox, Collin, Philadelphia, do ; Androscoggin,—,
do. do; Enterprise, Brown, Salem, do; srb’rs
Postboy, Sparner, do. do ; Betsey, Holmes, Salem,
do; Hetty, Woodbury, do. do; Salem, Cheavens,
do ; Hawk, Goff, Baltimore, captured. At St. An*
deio, ship Radius, Hartshorne, New York; sch’r
Britannia, Baker, Salem, captured. At Poit Pas
sage, ships Eagle, Alston, Philadelphia, captured;
Hawk, Brown, do. detained; General Wilkinson,
Half, London, do; brigs Tantivy, Perlee, New
Y»rk, d<>; Roebuck, Swain,Philadelphia, do; sch’r*
Seluy, Prosper, New .York, do t Young Connecti-,
cut, Rihy, do ; Exchange, Wye, Baltimore, do ;
Trim, Bombay, do. do; Helena, Cover, do, do ;
Poutboy, Adam a, do. do 1 Sptiicer, Modi It, Phila
delphia, do. At St, Jeun de Luz, afaipl Brothers,
Stmuer,' Philadelphia, raptured; Maty A Elisa,
Smith, Baltimore, do; Ann, PeadergrnV fine
•*!*«* ‘■‘-‘-K Warner, Marblehe^*, J#i
M'twttm, da, *>._$,*** AftH $5,p
thip Mena.of New ¥«*, ««»*<!«**
f.*r Liverpool, May lr.iahu, jfcjd
»P**ke ship Charlesian Fa***,
for Ntw v,,rk- Mth, W. f*t. 3.i. 0|
sp«k« brig Oliver, K»mb»#. 4 d^.
for St. I)a r tholomew g, had spra||'wij
her deck load overboard in egafetif #]
PORT OF NORFOLK AKD PORI
. CUSTOM-HOUSE—-Eurga
Bug Julia at Mary, Goodwin,
Srh’t Sally, Wyer, 1 i
Mtriuaid, Bwrk, f
SWp Ruby, fi-noer,
_ „ Clea»i9.
Brig Frednnia, Ad.: 11:5,
John L. Kerns, Buy ton, . * '
P* j-l, l.uyton, * '
SrltV Sally & fclie^gfCarf, ' 1
For th” vl»:p MAR
JHSwNBUCxptain K'mtulT, a limit C90t
then, a (food vessel and ht complete order,
OB board, or to . v- .. n .^7*7
Christopher I
W'iSo tfftrtpiT Sate, ' ^41
30,000 wt. good Coftce. arid
hogshead* of old particular K, F.. Rom, and
titv i f first quality Gun Powder* ii «t ^
M iy 2*. 1 ,
>.*jr*e Siibtcri'trt haxc jutt r,t'■ive0:*%:'.f‘
2l packages GOODS of laic impor
tations, which they continue tosell at their ({ituf
low prices by the piece or psfktige*
cohsistiks or •'
1 case vein figured and Loom Seed
MUSLINS
1 do. Hail Stone and fine India ditto, " ,
1 do. coloured S.ircenetts, 3 do. Gifiirham*, "ilBf'
2 do. sup. Calicoes, / *"
1 dr,. L idies and Gentlemens’Hosiery, ?
1 do. eteg int >0-4 to 13 4 C>tton Counirrp'ntfes, V
1 do. Furniture Fringe, Cord and J'ssaete,4 . ,
Rest supei fine blue and blgck Ch'diy, *;# 7 .
Do. mill'd drab Cassimercs— Buff ditto, ,
White Jo ‘ns, Jft
fashionable Coat Buttons of tupertour
Blue, green, and black Bomb ,zetts,
Yellow and Blue English Nankeen, «
A large suppty of factory Cotton, anS ‘
13 boxes elegant Gilt China; 93 p’s to the set.
affso. . * w- ..
A large supply of SHOES nf all kinds.
CURTIS SC KERfi.
May 35. tf
FOR RENT,
A large and convenient Brick-House,
on Hill-Street, with a Garden and other ConrenUn
cies—For terms enquire of . , , <
Iannis Dawley.
May 35. lairtf
Fifty Dollars Reward. ;1
RANAWAY from the Subscriber livine'll
well County, N. C. the 30th December instr.-i
gn> Man n-med 1)ICK, 35or 36 years okf,' S:
or 7 inches high.has lost one of bis under fiirp
has a piece of hts right es r off and holes in ifie
bobs, and has on one of bis arms the natfeef
ger cake. I purchased him at I#*tMMt^
House of Mr. George B. Allen—Ths
will be paid to any person who wiH aecure b
jail, and give me information at Caswatt^j
House, N. C.
A PRIVATE BOARDIG*HQ
In a pleattnf m/d iesiih* titmttimn
Suitable for elderly Gentlemen, who wwfrte
tired, nr young Ladies that wish to bnsfd j
folk, f»r the bent fit of Schor l, can k<t acconwi
by the week, month, or year—Tbe h«u*pjj
occupied by the Spanish Consul, 'irtiriinhilB
ginia Bank, where the |>»troo»ge of tyfim
stranger* are solicited by the subscriber/'
Ann XH^mo
t\ LL person* hatting claim*
o|t the late Co/. Jonah Parktpy
quested to make them known fin
vision may be made for ditch*rg)
those indebted to the estate of
are requested to tnake immediate'
Nansemond County,
May 9, 1810.