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^preparing lha me
indahted to hfm, and**
ftnnuorsht* punctuality
Minn, rtf k» pat r am
*j»«Hwrved, t#lw nKaaraid again —The
i»w not ttttwW to hr* former appftcsti
i tib'td i<» the present. most npwl
paper* will be •topped, and the payment
ftyrfcaf ?« A»« enforced.
«MrjNM<HCry patron; i* ««■*•» «ffl hm pWd
to consider this notirs as addressed alto to them.—
i-Thmf know whrn they sotgrrihrd, and H require*
pow#?f in tfittintnlick to fN^uI tte at th*
Ml* of six dollars per annum, how mnrh they owe.
' FA tft FIELD Jir'KY CIXTn RACES.
Isi <tnn, 4 mile heats for § 400.
Wn Winge's h, h. Sir Alfred by Sir Harry,
^AyMtsold, ICOlh.
5 1 1
yt. ft. Johnson's t. m Maria by Ray Yankey
; 4 V**r* old, 08
4 2 2
fUMi W«"»Uy<* r h Tom Toff hy Escape
* 6 year* old. 120
I 4 3
Waijy MnehvN e b Rattray by Diomede
•aid. 126 »•*.
3 4 5
ftob’t Temple’* b h Lamplighter by Dio
made 5 fear* old, 110
6 3 4
Pitl> ChamWfayne’s lv li Providence by
©scat*. 4 years o'M, 100
2 dr.
JWai, Ball’* » t» Miuervn by Diomede 6
years old, 11 ft
hoitrd
"iMfle* SeMen’* * h Mill Boy by Bedford 5
y**r»fh>d, HO dist.
}»t heat 8in. €).». 21 h*al 8m. 24«. 3d Fret $m. 5s
2d day. fffcpiieto^e Purse § 200—3 mile heats.
gJRalph Wormiry’s b. h. Moloch by Diomede
S years old, 11,011.*.
3 1 1
Tff. R. Johnson's e b Dim Quixotic by Dion
* 6 years oto. 420
4 2
Wade Mosl ey's s h Duroeh by Diomede, 4
f ■ yws old, ion
1 2 dr
W. Ball** a m Minvrva by Diomede, 6 years
*1», 120
2 bol.
Oetv. Cbamkerbiyoe s g b —— ■ by Hamilton
4 years old, 100 dist.
heat 6n». Is". 2d beat 5m. 54s. 34 heat 5m. 59s
XnaMlSweep- Stales far $500, 3 mr/e heats
.Merlin s* s b started by ft’. R. Johnson,
'IT y*ara old by Diomede,
2 t I
IWph Worm ley’s b. h. 4 years rid by Dio
Wed*.
S 2 2
Mr. Tyler s c h started by John lloutnes,
■* • 4 ye era old hyDinftierf*
l 1 Hr
tV. Ball’* t | S years old
4 3 dr
Mr. Fulton’s e m »tnned by CoT. SsWen,
‘ 3. years old dist.
-JUl heat 5m. 51*. ffd beat 6m. 4s. 3d heat 6m. 7«
Halifax CN- C.) Spring Meeting, 1 81 o.
The Jockey Club purse of 3.30 dollars, was wm
with great ease by Mr. Wilks*’horse Chamberlain
beating Gen. Carney's Blank
Second day—The.stokes of i f)0 dollars eaeh,
M)
" ’ forfeit, 2 mift heats.
Mr.Allen J.Daviess r Sportsman,by Do
med '
1
Mr. .lobnam’s a e by Dibmed
2
Mr. WundftlTI* h e by Citizen
3
* Mr. Barker's g f by Diomed
4
Third day a purse of g 200, hnvg up
/fftr Wilke*' * h Nf .riison, by DtomeH
1 I
Mr, Johnson'* • g Dm Qnixotte, by Dam
2 S
Jd . CroihweWb b n«*hy Citizen,
3 ;
Mr. Davie's Buzzard, by Buzzard
4 di
COMMERCIALLY important.
from the Correspond’nt of the Ye-man’s Journal,
^ dr Sew York, Thursday, noon.
“ A letter from a gentleman at Antigua, dated
April 34lb, to his correspondrnl in this city.
“1 must beg leave to in form you that the admi
ralties received order* to prevent the importation
of American articles in any bottoms via St. Bar
thjdpWrtwi ; consequently the trade of that island
iJwiptaHy •topped, ami the Americans now in that
port matt be placed in tn awkward predicament.’’
•Y fl is astonishing to observe with what tameness
iifeft pddpls •» well ns th« government of this coun
try submit to every species of injury and outrage
A Flange, provided they ran, now and then, re
Jlli return a few fair words. At nne lime
, imppgny, due rfe Csdore, is ordered to n il Mr.
irtnstTcng' that his majesty, the entpernur and
fcing/f <m«idr«s neutral trading vessels as colonies,
soch perfectly inviaiahle. Having made
U»i# flittering declaim inn, we are peifettJy content
lh«t he should go on lo capture, sequester, miiiis
“ ‘iirtNfStnk, horn, or deatroy, every neutral vessel
_ writh tlietr rargo that may fall within his grasp,—
•iAi Mother, he makes the most solemn protestati
igu|0|»the right n| the belligerents to impress
—■"ins of neutrals; and these protestn'.iur.s
■coweilf us to Ins unitnrm practice ofaoiz
iprisooiag, as malefactors, hundreds >d un
Amrrirsn seamen. V. S. Cm.
'tQmtMjut and gmtrd^f^Thr day before congress
"Mr- Macon laid upon the table ot the
. ^ .t df Teprcsentaliv. s the suhjpined resolution.
*5. and gum notice that he would call them up
' fet consideration at the next session.
■as ■•^••Ivsd, by the .serials and J.ouse of repre
iif the United States of America in ron
__ _, -ed, |jsu tbitds ut the house runcaning,
that the jfuiUswiog eertion be submitted to the legis
lirtures of the several states, which when ratified by
dfihree fourths of the states, shall
IP «p4fhiit4ing «• « port mi the cuustituliou of
Iftiled Bute*.
LSl ffP'ttmtstiee, uft#r having ta
UJ during the tune for which he was
bio W4M*/ rivil appointment, under
th# Uti«i* htuie*, nor shall any
<la lo.Noyjweh appniotmeut until
«rf the presidential term, during
& per sub Shull have tken a senator or «.
^ • k
- _-rriptioi4jpHd lyrJn,
« was in fact uny thing eithee
MthM* 4nA letter,, or Whiffet*still
w ipr
fW'
f
uHimately vi4t#
V Mnff tUilsHi** wii *rfu5iw% » master p«?e of
thahuman understanding.TN»* J» always' iTnV
«*<i, if so it rosy be i-xHM taftepuraldr fnn» tbst
1 which it most ex'-ellent, that it runsnt k altered
i>iit for the worst. fc*<r rotvslifiHion may fit liken
«d to Pope's silk blocking, swiinea identity was in
danger At bong lost by * mu-; es»ivr introduction,
'by darning,ot coarser threads.
Ytt if there be. ot whir h I bate miny and serious
doubts, any possibility of trHcndwg the comstttuu
•r> by the incorporation nto it oi specious proposi
ttfww. the on* wWh is offered by Mr. Ma<\>ii, than
whom we have not amongst us a more honest
S'Strsman, or a moresinrere end ardent lover -ifhia
eonntry, is nof or.ty of (bat cba.attt-r, !u.l is . jrt
ov*r, by recent example, at wbwl/it''to-in. render
ed indispensable.
In addition to seining the commerce «f tfce nati
on, drying up its resources, end degrading Us cha
racter, Mr. Jefferson has by j ract-ce, winch te
mjir# poweribl than ell the words thst ran be pla
c'd upon paper, changed fundamentally its ronsn
tution, in refation to the election of ihe president.
H*nreforth that rnigistrate is to he nominated at
Washington by a ram ss consisting of inemfceis of
congress, whose inffut'nn tl e constitution peremp
torily and in t-rros exrludes from his electron.—
And it is olreidy eetllrd that the nomination, when
I So made, is to be supported b% the party, by whose
! r lets it shall have e«n promulgated. Notn,nation
and eleriion ar-, therefore, one and the same Set,
and it lln nce follows, in point of fact, that a rsu
ens of members of congress originally names and fi
nally and effectually elects the president ol lbs Uni
t'd States.
Such bein£ tH® faM, Mr. Marnit, whr» prrf^ives
? f j>P>pos»?s that xvl ifh h#» f>ii cimtlii vonshjrr* a§
rak-ulned to sm urc »n vubought choice, bud to place
t- e csunr, upon ground noire elevated and unven
d'ble than ihut upon which the Diet of Polend,
which eventually worked the annihilation of Poland,
rmi e stood, for we, no more than Mr. Macon, should
rot hme sight of the tart, that a mucus which can
he indirectly purchased hy a president, may also be
somehow purchased by a foreign power. We
have already seen, und Mr. Macon, it appears, has
not been unobservant, t bat Mr. Jefferson, having by
an act of gross hypocrisy and flagrant o-nrpatron
designated Ins successor, effected ins nomination bv
the caucus, in soute mea-nm, by promising and con
Itrring appointments. Weather!.ill was appointed
a judge of Michigan Territory. Robinson, a sena
tor from Vermont, was in i.ivour of the election of
Gov, Clinton, until a promise was made, that his
son should be appointed lo an office in the post ui
fice dep irtrrient. Numerous appointments of this
kind might he cued, all of htch were successful.
And nut «f congress what did we witness ? Duane
and the Aurora were bought hy h colonelcy. Edi
tors were every where purchased uirre, halting be
tween two opinions, thrj could ht, and where also
they were worth the labour and the txpenc#. For
practices so unprincipled, profligate and dangerous,
there can be no complete, rem dy, since all human
desires lor the preservation of tb„t which is good,
may be counteracted by more acute artifices for the
attainment of that which is evil. Still considering
our present deplorable situation, the remedy pm
posed by Mr. Macon, though inadequate and ineffec
tual, won Id not I e use! ss. Something might be
gained hy disal l’ng nv-mbei's of congress from r*
reiviny, and the President from conferring offices,
‘‘dining the time (or which they were elarfej, or
until the expiration of the Presidential term,during
which they shall have been senators or represent^
Amtr. Citizen„
From Ike New York American Citizen.
Shouts Mission.—Daily occurrences develope
the secret springs by which, for the Lst lour years,
we have seen misgoverned, abused and disgraced,
by the sage of MouiireHo, and bis runty ami un
princi|)lcd followers.
We have now fn official form, a fact which was
origin tliy ‘•tiled in this paper, hut which, perhaps
from want of official sanction, made only » light
aod transient irnpressi-infat the time.
At an early tf-ige of that commercial system »f
impotent warfare which, co operating with the im
perial tyrant, was rashly adopted and has since been
disgr.rcetuily abandoned, Mr. Short, who was pri
vate secretary to Mr. J d'-rson when this gentle,
man was minister at Paris, was lound at the court
of Si. Petersburg, in an unofficial character.—Front
Petersburg he r a lire to Washington, bringing with
hm a leiier fuun the emperor Alexander, written
by hioraelf, addressed to the man who shed croco
dile tears ov<;r the grave of Washington, who hypo
critically |.>mer,ted that his “old friend Clinton
was estranging himself” fimn him, whu has been
worshipped hy the thonghtless, and by the dema
gogues who laugh at and manage them, and who
more than any other man that lives or baa lived,
has injured the interests and lowered the character
ol his country. When the emperor of all .the Rus
sia w rote his letter to the philosopher of all the
Americans, the wily and powerful Corsrran had
forced upon the Ruasian monarch his coercive sys
tern of commercial hostility, and both bad cunrlud
ed to hold their celebrated conferences at Erfurth,
where the subjugation of Spain, and other matters
<>' equal importance, and equally pleasing to the
Mrmmoth Sage, were finally arranged and agreed
upon. To this conferrence, it has been said, and it
is highly probable, Mr. Short was privately dis
patched by Mr. Jedersno, if not to assist in person
in the imperial deliberations, to communicate to
the two emperors how far the presidential philoso
pher would directly co-operate with them in their
commercial war against the ** Whore of Babylon,’'
and indirectly in their execrable designs on the in
dependence of Spat*. From that conference Buo
naparte posted to Paris, convened bis legislature,
and addressed them as follows;
“ *°d Denmark have joined me against
England.
“ f*1* United Slates of America hove preferred
to renounce commerce and the sea, father than to
aeknowlorfgeTtia slavery of them." [At the same
urn
■ i the imperial rharai was burning and stakini
v**,fh wherwref Jris cruisers wei them fl
«K
an rvv' vV": u
V aaf saw > Xcii. -_ _* ' a
1 ■»*«*• •• • fc«aej» w arder to put mysell
Br-;v^4: t
' J&L... - My. W
ill England”—yet
P!>il'¥' mam wmr_
Wtirm ihiMr (*f(i Wit originally stated in tbi*
jwpi-r, ii w»t wirtad, that although Mr. Sljoi t #xs
m>t * public agent; although be had not b*en no
nmiatod by the president, and by and with thead
vice and rnnstHit ttf.Vtie senate appointed minister,
either tothe court of Russia, or to the conference
at Erfurth, yet that if the funks ol the government
were examined, it would appear, that he had rtceiv
ed a compensation for the secret services which he
had rendered t» Mr. Jefferson. Ultimately a rail
has been nude by congress on this su'jeet, and to
this Mr.Gallatin has relumed the following an
“ REPORT.
The secretary of the treasury, in obedience to the
resolution ol the bouse of representatives ol the
22d lust, respectfully reports :
“ I bat William Short has not received from the
treasury anv sum of money whatever for outfit or
coi»»p«Rssticn ss minister or agent from the United
Si*T#, to the court of St. P. tersburgh.
’ “ That it appears by the accounts of thehanfcers
of tbe United States at Amsterdam, an extrart
whereol is hereunto annexed, that he did, between
the lfith day ol March and liie 30ih d*> of Jout
IhOy, receive frntij the said bunkers y,94-t> guilders,
equal to JjJ.'l 97S 40 (rents. which payments weic
mede out or tlm rums reroltedto them’ tor the pm
pose af del ray. tig the expenses incident to the m
ttrcoorsa with foreign nations.
“ Ami that the disbursements made by the s.tid
bnnkfr:s nut of that fund, bring always made m coo
torniity with the instructions they may rerrive Irom
the department o| state, no evidence exists in the
treasury department wf the partii ul.ir authority or
authorities, under which the payments above men
tioned were made.
14 Ail whirl* is respectfully nrbrriittflrt.
ALBKRT GALLATIN.1'
Treasury Department, April 2ith, 1810.
friifri '.his document ll appears, that Short’s sg
^f*1 intsMo'i an1 secret compensation were both raa
n;,g«*i by Mr. Jefferson am) Mr. Madison ; and Mr.
Gallatin was not permitted, we are to infer, (u
know any thing of the matter, until our bankers at ,
Amsterdam transmuted the accounts of tbeir dis
bursements.
There are two or three additional circumstances
attendin'* this transaction which arc worthy ot no
tice.
I he day before Mr. Jefferson conferred on the
country the favour o| retiring from thp presidency,
namely, on the 3d day of M. rcn, 1809, be nomi
nated the same Mr. Short minister to Russia, who h
nominal,«n was uii'u>im*usty rejectrd by the senate,
\ow it evidently appears from the report of Mr.
Gallatin, that after Air. Shoit had heen so nomi
nated and negatived, he rereive.d Iront our bankers
at Amsterdam, “ between the Kith day of M ,rch,
end the 30ih day nl June, ISO*),” the sum if
3,9/ 8 40, for the secret services lie bad render
ed. Some of this money, but how much we cannot
say, w,,s drawn by Mr. Short three months subse
quent to the acressiou of Mr. Madison lo the pre
sidency, and therefore to the rejection by the senate
')* Mr Short’s nomination.
It also appears from the same report that on the
23d day ol April 1810, nostatement had been laid
before congress of tha appropriation to Mr. Short
of so nmrh of our secret service money, that if the
sp.ciril i all had not been made none would in all
probability huve been submitted, and ther-dore,
that the president may apply at discretion the
sums appropriated in gross by congress “ f, r
the purpose of defraying the explores incident to the
intercourse with foreign nations.”
BANKS.
The writer of the following thoughts upon the
dissolution ol the charter «t the bank of the United
States lias always heen ademocr.it, and, if »e art
not mistaken, is now a director ol the state bank of
Pennsylvania. We think i.is observations so ron
rtuse, that we regret the hide pamphlet, from
winch we have roph-d lhem, did not sooner fall in
to our hands. 1 hough, at the present period, they
can serve only to opto to our view the scene of
commercial rum, which is so near at baud, we pay
a just tribute to the discernment of the writer by
publishing them, and it will certainly be useful to
know beforehand to what is to be uttiil uted the
distress and confusion which be predicts. They
will reriHinly not be diminished by the demands,
which must be made for filling up the stock of the
loui new banks, lately commenced here, which, if
the hank of tbe United States calls in its debts,
must either be ruined, or ruin the older hanks.
Baltimore fed. Rtp.
DESULTORY REFLECTIONS
l/pn$i tht i vinous fonsequencts of n von t enriral of
IM Char It r qf tit hank of tit United Statit.
BV M. CAREY.
PREFACE.
In the history of nbiitms, as well as of individu
als, there ale to he found orrasiotial moments of
Irenzy, in which every movement baffles the calcu
lations ol the politician, the moralist, nr the philo
sopher. That “ the mast enlightened nation in
the world cannot claim an exemption from this
common lot of mankind, is alas ! loo evident, on
a review of her career from the cradle to this mo
mentous period.
To the distractions and derangements of our af
fairs with the European world, we are, with almost
incredible folly, preparing to add an hwIuI scepe of
internal disorder and confusion, of private and pub
lick bankruptcy. Against these impending cala
mities, one portion of our citizens shut their ey^s;
and another regard them with as much apathy as if
they had relation to tha affairs of the chant of Tur
tary, or the emperor of Japan.
When I have been terrified at the prospect, and
saw that so many men of superiour talents and
much longer experience,>*ere perfectly tranquil j I
have asked myself again and again, whether F was
not unnecessarily alarmed, and whether I did not
spe’gntfy the Rork creek into the Mississippi, or the
of Caloramo into the Alleghany dr Andes
Moan tain*. I %we gone ovsx my calculations a
new; f if tad Mie facts on which my opinions were
»■ ttm id tvsry possible ^pgriutof
mm,
crsantw mj ,
quencrt el Ur* prair
Under these tt
- , J5P l* rais?j|» Teehia
main silent, t
defence of the u».»A> thousands Wh nr# »(,
..f destruction from the pre# nt plan
awl »n detence too of the peace and honour of tha
country, hoih of which i conieive involved in •
cision of the question. «
With candid and Upright men, my motive, which
cannot be mistaken, will, I (rest, apologise fo# any
delects that may appear in'a hasty production, writ
ten in a few lours, under the great disadvantage of
being at a distance fr»m home, and from documents
wdeh, if 1 had «n opportunity of adducing them
would remove the doubts of the most scrpucaL *
Washington, April 27, I8l£h
DESULTORY REFLECTIONS.
The approaching expiration of the charter of th»
h-.mk of the United States, early next March, has
given rise among our citizens to a Variety of impor
tant questions, on wbidi public opinion has heeu
and is very much divided: Ur roars of n most ,x
traonhnai v ami pernicious tendency prevail op (his
point even with men endowed with superior pow
ers, and generally well informed. Deeply impres
sed as I cm. with the paramount importance 'cf it,
m.d ionvin.ad that it most imperiously demanjsan
arly and c rrert derision, I venture, without apo
logy, to submit to the legislature of the United
® arts, a lew rertertions and farts to evince the pres
S.og nere'sity of the renewal of the rha. ter, and the
4 w'u consequences that must result from * i««Uu
ry system.
1 have not leisure, nor imleed do f deem it neret
ssry to mter mtoan examination of all the multi
farious plans that have her neither laid before con
gress, or through the public papers, submitted lo
oor citizens at large, for the etublisbmem of a new
I i,ank> or l‘;,e modification of the charter of the ex
iting hank. Without entering into detail, f ihmlc
I may safely a^s-ri, that some of them have hern to
the last dearie empirical.
My object IS to convince those who ere so f«r
mislead .is to believe, that little or no injury can a
nse from allowing the charter to expire <.r. which
is nearly the same in iftcct, from postponing The
renewal till next session ; how very fatal the i ons*,
qtienoes of either plan must prove.
1 he notes discounted in Philadelphia nr New
York by the mother hank, and its Ira, ub, are about
f .ur millions of dollars. If there be no arrant*,
nv nt made tor the renewal of the charter this sH>
S"to, the bank must prepare for closing its business
enly next Ma ch, about ten mouths hence. Inipe
nous dntv prescribes this procedure. The mildest
and most lenient form which the hue-ness can as
sume, is to draw the money in gradually, at the rata
o! about ten per cent, from their respectivedebtors.|
Ibis amounts in e.itli city to $100,000 weekly_
I hazard in» contradiction bom any man who per
fectly understands the suojeel, when I assert in ths
most unqualified terms, that with this nquisitiois
v-ry few ot our citizens can comply. No one in
f .ct can comply but those who have been mure
than commonly circumspect and timid in the ma
nagement of their business. All the bold, the tar
ing, the enterprising; those whose exertions and
industry have promoted the int-rest of tier coun
try ; th.vg who on the faith of the existing order of
tilings ha e invested large properties in the creati
on of machinery, the establishment of arts and nm
nufsetorcs, the purchase oi erection of houses, will
he involved in uue wide and undismmioatina ha
voc and destruction. All their grand and flattering
prospects for the.supportof tender and cherished ia
nnlies, lor the comfort and enjoyment of old age,
for the union of the otium cum dignitute, to which
honest, persevering industry has so fair aclami, wtll
he swept from the fare of the earth, like «• the
baseless fabric uf a vision, and leave not a true* be
hold."
tut many gentleman, and among the number
some who have made long spatrhes’tipon the sub
ject, have very gravely ami profoundly asserted that
the state hanks will he fully aide to supply the de
mand for money created by' the diminution of dis
counts on the part of the bank of the United States
and its branches. Miserable delusion nr deception!
It is painful to me, but I nevertheless feel a my du
ty, to write on this point without di«,oiige or palli
ation. And I say in ibe face of the nation, and
challenge any gentleman, in or out'ui i ongress, to a
lull investigation of the subject, that no maa can
make su. h an assertion without being so totally ui„
acquainted with the subject, as to be a dangerous
guide to follow ; or, it lie he master of it, he must
slate, what he knows to be wholly without even ths
si adow of foundation. Let him choose the alter
native.
The state hanks will feel the pressure coevally,
and with as much violence and danger as an? indi
vidual in society, Andhnwevei paiadoxical it may
ippear, it is nevertheless true, that the preisuru
Irom the state banks, will lie greater then from ths
United Slates bank. The latter need not, and pro
bably will not, require more than leu per Cent, in
stalments; but the former will frequently be oblig
'd, in self defeme, to require 20 and 30 per cent,
and in many instances even the abole debt. :
It is not very easy to render this at perfectly
clear, as it is undoubtedly true. 1 proceed to elu
cidate.
In Philadelphia there are, as is pretty universally
known, four banks, exclusive of that of the United
States. These banks reserve, in their Vault's, ao
much specie as will meet all probable demands, so
as to be able to pay their notes in specie of soy
sort, whenever a requisition to that effect is ms
opon them. This sum fluctuates from 120 to
250,000 dollars in each. I believe it is muett of
lener at the former than at the latter sum. Per
haps 150,000 dollars would be a tolerably fair ava
rage. let st consider how long such' a sum would
answer the demands upon these banks from that of
the United States. - r
Aa the debts are paid into the bank of the Upftfd
Status, that bank must necessarily and obviduslv
attain possession of a very large amount of the
notes of the rival benke. T heie will furm afoav*
balance against those hanks, to H' paid in specie,
atod liable to be olLdfor at any how. While tfceir
specie Lata all is well ; but it •cannot, it will" i
last long; it mus! inevitably find its way ft*t«
vault* of ths United Sta1£ Bank. HoV